Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!

Brit Marling

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon --but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx --the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

Bob Dylan

I mean, every child at one stage dreams of being a prince or a princess.

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

Nothing recedes like progress.

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

My friend Winnie is a procrastinator. He didn't get his birthmark until he was eight years old.

Steven Wright

Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Judith Stern

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Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell, Kerr, J

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Norman Cousins

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

Thomas Paine

Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.

Leo Tolstoy