Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
  Howards End, ch.19.

Is it not possible that the rage for confession, autobiography, especially for memories of earliest childhood, is explained by our persistent yet mysterious belief in a self which is continuous and permanent; which, untouched by all we acquire and all we shed, pushes a green spear through the dead leaves and throughthemould, thrusts a scaled bud through years of darkness until, one day, the light discovers it and shakes the flower free andöwe are aliveöwe are flowering for our moment upon the earth? This is the moment which after all, we live foröthe moment of direct feeling when we are most ourselves and least personal.

-Beauchamp
   Journal entry,  Apr.

   Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.

-Reno,Janet
  Opposing the death penalty. In the NewYorkTimes,15 May.

You're blessed with a woman's brain: vague, slippery, inexact, interested only inthe personal aspect of a thing.

-Lindesay Robertson ne¤  e Richardson
  The Getting ofWisdom, ch.9.

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

-Sarton, May
Quoted in Encore: A Journal of the 80thYear (1993).

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world: and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  The Irrational Knot, preface.