About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

Walter Benjamin

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

William Blake

All life is a rhythm, she said as I sat up. All death is rhythm suspended, a syncopation before life resumes.

Samuel R. Delany

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

J. Krishnamurti

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Jim Manzi

I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.

J. C. Watts

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

Theodore White

I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

Youssou N'Dour

If by our sacrifice - yours and mine,' said Onos T'oolan, 'the pain of one life can be ended; if, by our deaths, this one can be guided home... we will judge this a worthy cause.

Steven Erikson

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

Tom Perrotta