My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves.

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

Franz Liszt

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Thomas Paine

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to tht moment.

Richard Bach, Running from Safte

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

George Sand

It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.

Yiddish Proverb

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Francis of Assisi

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

Johann von Goethe

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Thomas Jefferson

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Lord Edward Lytton

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

Jacques Chirac