To know God and to live is one and the same thing. God is life.

A sin is something which is not necessary.

George Gurdjieff

The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with a totalitarian enemy was to intimidate him. The trouble with this theory was that while we live in a world of plot and counterplot, we also live in a world of cause and effect. Whatever the cause for the decision to legitimize and regularize deceit abroad, the inevitable effect was the practice of deceit at home.

Norman Cousins, Pathology of Pow

I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I've never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero's errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.

John Green

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky

To win one Moonman is amazing, to win two is incredible.

Harry Styles

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.

George Orwell

We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.

Terry Pratchett

I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.

Leni Riefenstahl

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Edward Gibbon

The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

Manny Pacquiao

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

Camille Anna Paglia

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

Michael Ondaatje