Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

Mark Twain, Chapters from My Aut

It is not enough if you just live life as it comes to you like a floating leaf in a pond. Make use of the powers bestowed in you and soar like an eagle.

Stephen Richards

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

Jules Feiffer

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

Stephen King

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

Cullen Hightower

I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

James Thurber

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest--whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories--comes afterward. These are games; one must first answer.

Albert Camus

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Mahatma Gandhi

This phrase, Citius, Altius, Fortius is the Olympic Motto.

Voula Patoulidou