My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.

In peace we can make many of them ignore good and evil entirely; in danger, the issue is forced upon them in a guise to which even we cannot blind them. There is here a cruel dilemma before us. If we promoted justice and charity among men, we should be playing directly into the Enemy's hands; but if we guide them to the opposite behaviour, this sooner or later produces (for He permits it to produce) a war or a revolution, and the undisguisable issue of cowardice or courage awakes thousands of men from moral stupor.This, indeed, is probably one of the Enemy's motives for creating a dangerous world-a world in which moral issues really come to the point. He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty, or mercy, which yieldsto danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.(the enemy referred to is God)

C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letter

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Albert Camus

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

Carol Ann Duffy

The self is only that which it is in the process of becoming.

Soren Kierkegaard

I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species.

John Green

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

Ninon De L'Enclos

It's everyone's destiny to be glooped at some point in their life.

Anthony Stewart Head

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

Leo Tolstoy

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

Source Unknown

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

William Hazlitt

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

W. Somerset Maugham