At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people nurture the belief that they can do things.

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

Emma Thompson

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Paulo Coelho

Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say.

Frederick Pollock

I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

James Gordon Bennett

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Daniel Webster

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Ben Sweetland

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Desiderius Erasmus

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Jonathan Swift

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice can not sleep forever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference!

Thomas Jefferson

Bermimpilah, karena Tuhan akan memeluk mimpi-mimpi itu. - Arai

Andrea Hirata