If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.

As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

Ernest Hemingway

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy

William Shakespeare

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

John le Carre

A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.

Martin Luther

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Jeremy P. Johnson

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality

Carl Gustav Jung

The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.

Camille Anna Paglia

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Aphra Behn

All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Alexander Trocchi

Science must not impose any philosophy,any more than the telephone must tellus what to say.

G.K. Chesterton

The organized charity, scrimped and iced, in the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

John Boyle O'Reilly