When you have no freedom, then your life becomes the life of an animal.

All men would be cowards if they could.

Earl Rochester

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

Julius Erving

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

The biggest difference between ancient Rome and the USA is that in Rome the common man was treated like a dog. In America he sets the tone. This is the first country where the common man could stand erect.

I. F. Stone

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

David Hume

Half this game is 90% mental.

Danny Ozark

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

John Ruskin

Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.

Cindy Margolis

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

Ralph Fiennes

True recollection has characteristics by which it can be easily recognized. It produces a certain effect which I do not know how to explain, but which is well understood by those who have experienced it. . . . It is true that recollection has several degrees, and that in the beginning these great effects are not felt, because it is not yet profound enough. But support the pain which you first feel in recollecting yourself, despise the rebellion of nature, overcome the resistance of the body, which loves a liberty which is its ruin, learn self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantages which you gain from it. As soon as you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey: and this will take place without effort or care on your part. God thus rewards the violence which your soul has been doing to itself; and gives to it such a domination over the senses that a sign is enough when it desires to recollect itself, for them to obey and so gather themselves together. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation.

Teresa of Avila

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.

Sanskrit Poem