What are memories but photo images from the mind? Isn't the human mind so much like a camera, saving pictures every now and then?

A woman should never go so far with someone, that she cannot come back alone...not for love..not for society…not for herself. It took me so long to find my way back.

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.

And by my grave you'd pray to have me back So I could see how well you look in black.

Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.

Customers who are merely satisfied remain your customers only as long as everything goes their way.

Win or lose, we achieve nothing in the world that we understand [...]' 'But then the world does not matter.' 'Indeed it does not [...] It is good to understand that.

...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.