The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

David Herbert Lawrence

Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.

Albert Camus

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

Helen Keller

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

Olivia Williams

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

Source Unknown

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

Armistead Maupin

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.

Etty Hillesum

It is not the sale of my soul that troubles me: I have sold it too often to care about that. I have sold it for a professorship. I have sold it for an income.... What is all human conduct but the daily and hourly sale of our souls for trifles?

George Bernard Shaw

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Muhammad Ali

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Proverb

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Jonathan Swift

They are in love. Fuck the war.

Thomas Pynchon