One of the the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by the river- was that so few people ever asked you personal questions.

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think its forever.

Carl Sagan

The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

Victor Hugo

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

Leonard Cohen

Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow

William Shakespeare

... life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole...

Jane Addams

Life should be embraced like a lover.

Rose Tremain

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Sholom Aleichem

You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

J.K. Rowling

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Theodor Adorno

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

James Fenimore Cooper