Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Mahatma Gandhi

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myselfwould be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Leon Trotsky

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Samuel Johnson

Hebzucht heeft geen kleur.

Deon Meyer

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

J. Milton Hayes

NEVER be surprised by your own success!

Steve Maraboli

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

Christopher Hitchens

What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper 4 times 3 while I was reading it

Rodney Dangerfield