We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die.

It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

William Hazlitt

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

Ulysses S. Grant

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

Demetri Martin

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

Janet Jackson

Free at last; free at last; thank God Almighty we are free at last.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The 2004 presidential election will be a matter of life or death for the whole nation. We are sick today, and we will be even sicker tomorrow if this wretched half-bright swine of a president gets re-elected in November.

Hunter S. Thompson

The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

C.S. Lewis

They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.

Jim Capaldi

What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul

Victor Hugo

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

Will Durant

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred North Whitehead

If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it.

Proverb