My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

Eli Khamarov

I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do.

Alex Campbell

For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.

Joaquin Phoenix

For the first time I understood the haunting beauty of the song. It was the song of a killer who longed to die. It was the song of justice yearned for but not yet done.

Orson Scott Card

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan

To me faith means not worrying.

John Dewey

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

Stanley Fish

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

Ambrose Bierce

Memory, joy, are intuitions; and even mathematical propositions become intuitions, for education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

Blaise Pascal

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

Danny Boyle

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

Francois Rabelais

Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.

Oscar Wilde