[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Blaise Pascal

Throught experience in life you write to let your heart scream, cry and laugh.

Vinh Khanh Huynh

It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute.

Peter Medawar

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity it is service.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.

Sylvia Earle

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Napoleon Hill

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Warren Buffett

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

Joni Mitchell

Hence arose the saying, If I love you, what is that to you? We say so, because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it. It is not you, but your radiance. It is that which you know not in yourself, and can never know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love.

Mechthild of Magdenburg

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

Dame Edith Sitwell

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Berthold Auerbach