Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief

Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

Sonia Johnson

The professors must not prevent us from realizing that history is fun, and that the most bizarre things really happen

Bertrand Russell

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Saint Augustine

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

Christopher Darden

Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.

Steve Backley

Music breaks my heart constantly.

Rashida Jones

I'd like to think that I'm brave. That's a really wonderful personality trait to have. I would love to think I'm the type of person to go rescue someone.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

Robert Kennedy

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Ernest Hemingway