A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. – C. Northcote Parkinson

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial. – Bodhidharma

To be admitted to Natures hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain. – Henry David Thoreau