A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in that men fight for things and then lose the battle, only to win it again in a shape and form that they had not expected, and then be compelled again to defend it under another name. We are all of us very good at self-persuasion and I strive to be alert to its traps, but a version of what Hegel called 'the cunning of history' is a parallel commentary that I fight to keep alive in my mind.

Christopher Hitchens

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Michel de Montaigne

The narrower the mind, the broader the statement.

Ted Cook

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.

T. S. Eliot

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

Robert Smith

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

Julia Child

Only the virtuous can count on life, the pursuer of evil can only ever count on death.

Travis Berketa

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Chinese Proverb

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

Lilith Saintcrow

In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

Corrie Ten Boom