Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out (she glanced at the window with its ripple of reflected lights) in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby; so that again tonight she had the feeling she had had once today, already, of peace, of rest. Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that endures.

Virginia Woolf

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Roland Barthes

Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.

Blaise Pascal

While a person gets they can never lose.

Scottish Proverb

Love can either be your greatest companion or your worst enemy, depending on your pride to accept or deny things.

Anthony Liccione

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.

Jodi Picoult

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

Robert Wyatt

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

William Shakespeare

I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle of his ongoing death.

Michael Cunningham

Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.

Hideki Tojo

War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Niccolo Machiavelli