No one becomes perfect, but some become great.

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

Thor Heyerdahl

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.

African Proverb

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

Marquis de Lafayette

I always wanted her to say, I love you, I'll stand by you, you are very important to me, but she never did. She loved me inside, but I didn't feel it.

Stella Vine

Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.

Francois Fenelon

Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

Euripides

Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.

Timothy Garton Ash

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing them -- that what has been said has still not been said enough.

Eugene Delacroix

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

Lord Byron

Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.

Jay Cocks