"Where there is love, there is vulnerability to pain."

“I say that I'm not into you like that, Camryn, because..," he pauses, searching my face, looking at my lips for a moment as if deciding whether or not he should kiss them again, "...because you're not the girl I could only sleep with once.”

“It is wrong to believe that Hispanics are Democrats. Hispanics are traditionally and historically conservative, not just socially conservative, but fiscally conservative.”

“What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.”

“And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.”

“One of the best ways to learn anything is to teach yourself.”

“The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene”

Source : Matt Ridley (2012). “The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature”, p.9, Harper Collins

“A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.”

“I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it.”