You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

Junius

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.

Michael Ignatieff

Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.

Paulo Coelho

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The beginning of thought is in disagreement -- not only with others but also with ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

Henry Moore

Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.

Leopold Trepper

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings --as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Charles Horton Cooley

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.

Tadao Ando

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid