When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born,Whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn;And here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sinIn tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.

Rudyard Kipling, Naaman

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

Terry Brooks

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

Marlene Dietrich

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

John Burroughs

I didn't know that there was a thin line between ignorance and arrogance.

Faraaz Kazi

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

Leo Tolstoy

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

Andy Rooney

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.

Kurt Vonnegut

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

Maya Lin

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

Jessica Savitch

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Billy Wilder