We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and still their silverware.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

Ted Turner

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

People who know the least always argue the most.

Source Unknown

We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.

Salman Rushdie

I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

Paulo Coelho

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

Ken Robinson

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Erich Fromm

I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.

Ken Follet

Dedicate one's life to truth.

Juvenal

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

Charlie Chaplin