As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved Of all powers he forgives most, but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all.

C.S. Lewis

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

Oscar Wilde

Imagination needs to be fed.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

David Attenborough

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Marcus Aurelius

My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.

Gregory Hines

I am better than I was yesterday but not as good as I will be tomorrow.

Anonymous

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

Jane Austen

there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up?

Cassandra Clare

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

Allen Tate

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Alfred North Whitehead