Glory is the child of peril.

A society that has made nostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

Christopher Lasch

About 20 per cent of the population believe themselves to have a food allergy and only about five per cent actually do.

John Warner

Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now...

Henry Miller

Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.

Buddha

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Orson Scott Card

You built your walls too, she tells him. So I have my wall. She says it glittering in a beauty he cannot stand. She with her beautiful clothes with her pale face that laughs at everyone who smiles at her...

Michael Ondaatje

In times like the present men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.

Abraham Lincoln

Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned.

Charles W. Chesnutt

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

Ornette Coleman

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

Christopher Marlowe

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Mark Twain