I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.

O unbelievers, I serve not what you serve and you are not serving what I serve, nor am I serving what you have served, neither are you serving what I serve. To you your religion, and to me my religion!

Qur'an

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.

Roone Arledge

You don't want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That's what I'm missing right now.

Rihanna

The Earth is the cradle of the mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.

Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky

Being close but feeling far, talking but not being heard, loving but not being loved, that is the painful reality of a dying relationship.

Steve Maraboli

Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

J. B. Priestley

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

Kin Hubbard

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

William Penn

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Henry David Thoreau