Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

He does not weep who does not see.

Victor Hugo

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Gloria Swanson

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

Paul Tsongas

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

Sri Aurobindo

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

Terry Brooks

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Johann von Goethe

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

Leo Tolstoy

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

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I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.

Mark Twain

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

Bo Bennett, Year to Success

I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.

Jack Kerouac

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

Christina Aguilera