"I feel like my pure and proper image is causing others to be really cautious about becoming close to me. They think I sleep as soon as it hits midnight"

“We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.”

“For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.”

“The real malady is fear of life, not of death”

Source : FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Oct 29, 2011

“If we can't quantify and communicate our value with confidence, the achievements of the tremendous women before us will have all been for nothing.”

Source : Mika Brzezinski (2012). “Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You're Worth”, p.186, Weinstein Books

“What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.”

Source : "Jay Electronica" by Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

“THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea”

“When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.”

“Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.”

Source : Samuel P. Huntington (2004). “Who are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity”, p.37, Simon and Schuster