Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses

Kamila Shamsie

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

Thomas Kempis

In time of peace prepare for war.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.

Edward Kennedy

Cats don't like change without their consent.

Roger Caras

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.

Mike Mills

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

Anthony De Mello, One Minute Wis

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

Gene Simmons

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

Oscar Wilde

This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its easy silences, its permanence, has yoked Sally directly to the machinery of mortality itself. Now there is a loss beyond imagining.

Michael Cunningham