It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

Jack Henry Abbott

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

John Pierpont Morgan

I'm not quite sure what the greatest achievement in a lifetime may be, but I am sure up there at the top of the list somewhere is to give pleasure to others.

Source Unknown

Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground is the heart of men.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.

Paulo Coelho

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.

David Miliband

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.

Christopher Hitchens

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

Susan Sontag

Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti