Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

Ralph Peters

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.

Albert Einstein

I believe a man is born first unto himself --for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.

Bertrand Russell

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

Heraclitus

As each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve, the question of the meaning of life may actually be reversed. Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. Thus, logotherapy sees in responsibleness the very essence of human existence.

Viktor E. Frankl

Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!

Robert Browning

I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.

Tom Hardy

Watching large mammals living their ordinary life in the jungle is extraordinary

Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes

Our highest intelligence is deep water flowing into the shallows

Jayne Ryan

But the speed was power, and the speed was joy, and the speed was pure beauty.

Richard Bach