An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

Samuel Johnson

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Eleanora Duse

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.

Jon Crosby

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art a euphemism tamed wilderness.

Dejan Stojanovic

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.

Thomas Traherne

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Jean de la Bruyere

Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, but must be current.

John Milton

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.

Jonathan Sacks

The oppression of a majority by a minority, and the demoralization inevitably resulting from it, is a phenomenon that has always occupied me and has done so most particularly of late.

Leo Tolstoy

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable.

Eydie Gorme