This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room).

Victor Hugo

Silence is peace, silence is quiet, silence is calming, silence is what you can be.

Jessica Kissner

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

Timothy Radcliffe

Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Bertrand Russell

I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.

Justin Bieber

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

J.K. Rowling

Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and watch that basket.

Mark Twain

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

Bertrand Russell

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

Gilbert Murray

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

Milan Kundera

My family begins with me, your family ends with you.

Iphicrates

Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.

Wallace Stevens