Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

Georges Bernanos

Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive.

Haruki Murakami

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

Michael Haneke

Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

John Sterling

ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.

Ambrose Bierce

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Italo Calvino

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

Plato

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Miguel de Cervantes

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

Henri Frederic Amiel

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Pierre Corneille