In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus

The right to be alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.

Louis D. Brandeis

With brothers you become friends. Some you hang out with more than others. You talk to one about the other a little more. You get mad at them. Then, you love them. Then, you apologize. You have to apologize whether you want to or not. You have to. That's your brother.

Tito Jackson

Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.

Cordell Hull

Freedom is such a gift.

Ryan Gosling

Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear.

Paul Giamatti

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

Greg Egan

She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.

Lorrie Moore

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

E. M. Forster

But time is yet another of God's creations, and as such, it has a life of its own.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

'Why do we have to listen to our hearts?' 'Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.''But my heart is agitated,' the boy said. 'It has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it's become passionate over a woman of the desert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights, when I'm thinking about her.' 'Well, that's good. Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.'

Paulo Coelho

There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.

Michael Ian Black