Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberation movement, and I feel cold contempt for those who jeer at it.

Christopher Hitchens

Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

Virginia Woolf

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

Clarice Lispector

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

Paul Theroux

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 182

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Francesco Guicciardini

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Japanese Proverb

Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all.

L. A. Coulson