Angel

“I wonder how many women from time immemorial have thought that if only women could rule the world it would be better than it is.”
― Phyllis T. Smith, I Am Livia

“Then, having thus made the Creator responsible for all those pains and diseases and miseries above enumerated, and which he could have prevented, the gifted Christian blandly calls him Our Father!

It is as I tell you. He equips the Creator with every trait that goes to the making of a fiend, and then arrives at the conclusion that a fiend and a father are the same thing! Yet he would deny that a malevolent lunatic and a Sunday school superintendent are essentially the same.”
― Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings

“I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.”
― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada