I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7

Phoebus de Chateaupers likewise came to a 'tragic end': he married.

Victor Hugo

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Norman Cousins

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

Mary Wesley

Altogether, Olympia thinks the sight of herself satisfactory, but not beautiful: a smile is missing, a certain light about the eyes. For how very different a woman will look when she has happiness, Olympia knows, when her beauty emanates from a sense of well-being or from knowing herself to be greatly loved. Even a plain woman will attract the eye if she is happy, while the most elaborately coiffed and bejeweled woman in a room, if she cannot summon contentment, will seem to be merely decorative.

Anita Shreve

What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.

John Boorman

Where words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian Andersen

Good free verse is not at all easy to write, for there is no repetitive beat to lull the reader's critical faculty, much pattern and discipline is to be found in it, though the pattern of sounds and choice of exact words, gives it its beauty.

Marjorie Boulton

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

George Gobel

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

Henry Miller

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

Ridley Scott

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Alexander Hamilton