Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

William Shakespeare

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

Edward Hopper

We will not know unless we begin.

Howard Zinn

For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the '80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.

Beth Ditto

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Ernest Dimnet

There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.

Lactantius

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

Aristotle

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

Hans Kung

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

Imran Khan

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.

Washington Irving, Tales of a Tr

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

J.K. Rowling

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Paul Boese