I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

Carl Gustav Jung

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

Maurice Sendak

But language is wine upon his lips

Virginia Woolf

Editing is the same as quarreling with writers -- same thing exactly.

Harold Wallace Ross

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.

John Boyd Orr

When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Ashvaghosha

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.

Francois Hollande

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

John Donne

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

Mason Cooley

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Jean Cocteau