For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.

Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist.

But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.

grievance does not make for great art.

I turn and run, watching my feet trample a massacre of weeds. I mourn them. The only thing that grows is dandelions in the cracks of the sidewalk and we always end up killing them.

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.

To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

God is God, He is not tame and domesticated like we sometimes (try to) make Him.

Jumps like a black man and grabs coins like a Jew.

Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.