What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Huang Po

You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.

Cassandra Clare

Travel teaches toleration.

Benjamin Disraeli

He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Benjamin Franklin

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

Harold Bloom

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

Abba Eban

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Roy H. Williams

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.

Steven Erikson

May the beauty of the flowers remind us of the beauty of our loved one's spirit

Steve Butler

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley