Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

Marilyn Manson

Home is where the heart is.

Pliny the Elder

Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Mark Twain

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.

Andrea Riseborough

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.

James Buchan

Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

Marshall McLuhan

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Blaise Pascal

Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

James Gates Percival

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Aristotle

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Andrew Sullivan