Since we fear most that which is unknown to us, defining moments of change occur when we choose to know our fear.

Man kills, the things he love the most, sometimes by the virtue of hatred, crime, anger and war and sometimes by dramatizing his activities. But he is not aware that his killings are his own self-image.

Santosh Kalwar

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.

Bo Bennett

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Dennis Potter

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Heraclitus

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Edmund Burke

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

John Gunther

Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

Milan Kundera

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Pope Paul VI

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

William Faulkner

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Martha Beck

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Bertrand Russell

I went camping and borrowed a circus tent by mistake. I didn't notice until I got it set up. People complained because they couldn't see the lake.

Steven Wright