Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Leave the past behind. Give privacy your future . Body and mind in yours now. Perceive the world around you, feel the world inside.

I don’t want content. I want slight fear. Anxiety. I want a longing devotion for a twist of absence. The feeling of complete isn’t quite pleasing.

Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

I’m going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and that’s why my husband doesn’t want to be around me.

Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.

Our stars are quite notorious. I mean, they don't show up on time. This is, you know, something which is very, very annoying.

Pity those who don't feel anything at all

You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!