Unless you intend to kill him immediately thereafter, never kick a man in the balls. Not even symbolically. Or perhaps especially not symbolically.

Robert A. Heinlein
    Friday

    That for every moment of darkness we shared between us, there was a moment of such brightness I almost could not bear to look at it head-on.

Carolyn Parkhurst
    The Dogs of Babel.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It's not brave if you're not scared.

And remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did. Only she did it backwards and in heels.

Leave it to Cleavage, Wendy Wax

Why do you think this is? My happiest times, my worst times-they are things only I remember, no-body else remembers them. A very lonely feeling.

The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan

"Don't worry about what other people think. They don't do it often."

"How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes."

John Irving, Cider House Rules