women and cats.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein

Perfect speed

You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.
Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)

Words and edges.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Ernest Hemingway

A Cloud

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noonday dreams.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

protest against the darkness.

The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
George Eliot

At the close of a winter day

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Elizabeth Bowen

Simplicity

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
Coco Chanel

Language

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
Jane Wagner

To get to know a country

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.
Albert Einstein