American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

Bishop Robert South

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.

Criss Jami

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.

Scott Thompson

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

Leo Tolstoy

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Charles Caleb Colton

A half-truth is a whole lie

Yiddish Proverb

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Abraham Lincoln

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary

Major Kira Nerys

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire.

Quintilian

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....

C.S. Lewis, attributed

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

Wislawa Szymborska