If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

Ai Weiwei

One golden rule is to accept the interpretation honestly put on the pledge by the party administering it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.

Kevyn Aucoin

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

Charles Van Doren

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castenada

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

Robert Browning

Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

George Eliot

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Wise men do not quarrel with each other.

Danish proverb

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

Lyle Lovett

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.

Bill Bryson