Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

Albert Camus

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Charlotte Bronte

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

Michael Morpurgo

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Jane Austen

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

William Shakespeare

And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.

Miguel de Cervantes

The (Catholic) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco's invasion of Spain to destroy the Spanish republic with a Muslim mercenary army in the thirties, on the side of Hitler.

Christopher Hitchens

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Blaise Pascal

I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see.

Leni Riefenstahl

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

Josh McDowell

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.

James Thomson

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson