While history offers us many stories worth telling, some belong to other people, who paid for them with their lives. We may retell their stories badly or well. We may embellish them or get them wrong. But we should not do so blithely, just as we should not scrawl slogans on other people's houses, or stride into their living rooms to replace the furniture. Thinking that we can is not novel history. It's novel morality, unworthy of artists and storytellers.

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

Benjamin Franklin

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

Harry S Truman, Mr. Citizen, 196

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

We are pagans. We deify each other.

Lara Biyuts

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Mangnu Hirschfield

Deception was an inherent trait of intelligent beings. Even his love, in her ample ardor, would weave him a guilty lie for his own good. And he treasured her just as well for those tales he was sure she'd already spun.

Darrell Drake

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Plato

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

André Gide

I went into this bar and sat down next to a pretty girl. She looked at me and said, Hey, you have two different colored socks on. I said, Yeah, I know, but to me they're the same because I go by thickness.

Steven Wright

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

Islom Karimov

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

Lucille Ball

The heart was made to be broken

Oscar Wilde