Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

The lessons from the peace process are clear whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

Queen Elizabeth II

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

Tori Amos

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

Chris Evans

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.

Susan Rice

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

Orson Scott Card

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Henry David Thoreau

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

Leon Kass

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

Serge Daney

Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

William Feather

Because tomorrow, the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide may bring.

Chuck Noland