A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.

Daisaku Ikeda

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.

Gunther Grass

Mr Ramsay, stumbling along a passage one dark morning, stretched his arms out, but Mrs Ramsay having died rather suddenly the night before, his arms, though stretched out, remained empty.

Virginia Woolf

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Octavio Paz

I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary.

C. JoyBell C.

We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?

Linda McCartney

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

Albert Camus

The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society.

James Madison

Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

A. Philip Randolph

From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

Proverb

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Arnold J. Toynbee

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Ralph Waldo Emerson