Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

J. D. Salinger

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

David Byrne

We are very apt to measure ourselves by our aspiration instead of our performance. But in truth the conduct of our lives is the only proof of the sincerity of our hearts.

Source Unknown

We must substitute courage for caution.

Martin Luther King Jr.

His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

Victor Hugo

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets

Samuel Johnson

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

George Bernard Shaw

Asymmetrie [macht] Menschen unglücklich.

J.M. Coetzee

[D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...

Neil Gaiman

Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

Virginia Woolf

I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

Michael D. Higgins

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Benjamin Disraeli