It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Soren Kierkegaard

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Paul Valery

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.

Horace

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.

Eleanor Roosevelt

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.

Mother Theresa

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

Emile M. Cioran

My wife has to be the worst cook. I don't believe meatloaf should glow in the dark

Rodney Dangerfield

Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.

LeRoy Neiman

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

Michelangelo Antonioni

On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.

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Things don't stay the way they are, said Finnerty. It's too entertaining to try to change them.

Kurt Vonnegut

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau