None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

...if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.

Alain de Botton, On Love

If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean even if it did build muscle whereas to wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one's learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance, or a Groundhog Day. And the mind ought to, but cannot, set some limits to wish-thinking. All right, same but with more money, an even sturdier penis, slightly different parents, a briefer latency period the thing is absurd. I seriously would like to know what it was to be a woman, but like blind Tiresias would also want the option of re-metamorphosing if I wished. How terrible it is that we have so many more desires than opportunities.

Christopher Hitchens

After the dazzling orgies in form and color of the eighteenth century, art was put on a diet, and allowed nothing but the straight line. This sort of progress ended in ugliness. Art reduced to a skeleton, was the result. This was the advantage of this kind of wisdom and abstinence; the style was so sober that it became lean.

Victor Hugo

when we really connect with who God is we will find He is better than anything we could ever imagine

Shelley Hitz

This is a typical journalistic statement: It is correct, but it is not the truth.

Helmut Kohl

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

When you love someone, they deserve to know the truth

Lorna Seilstad

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

Anthony Doerr

The future is as bright as the promises of God.

William Carey

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes