Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

Herman Melville

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

Daisaku Ikeda

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

Taylor Swift

The destiny of man is in his own soul

Herodotus

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins and astrology ends, and astronomy begins.

Christopher Hitchens

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Thomas Hardy

The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Robertson Davies

If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.

Naima Adedapo

There was truth in Diaz's logic, yes: our line of work is like that. Once you have started, the only way back is to go forward.

Imre Kertész

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

Christopher Marlowe