In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.

Frank Black

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

Stephen Greenblatt

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Woodrow Wilson

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Pope Paul VI

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Franz Kafka

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

William Penn

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Gustave Flaubert

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Rabindranath Tagore

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.

Christopher Hitchens