Unto Thee, O Lord, the Soul of Creation cried: For whom didst Thou create me, and who so fashioned me? Feuds and fury, violence and the insolence of might have oppressed me; None have I to protect me save Thee; Command for me then the blessings of a settled, peaceful life.

I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody's need made me blind; But I never have yet Felt a tinge of regret for being a little to kind

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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

Dalai Lama

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Johann von Goethe

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

Bodhidharma

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

William Hedgcock Webster

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.

Michael Scheuer

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Going home, spending time with the family, I feel they're my friends as well, all of them. I look forward to meeting any one of them for a coffee, and when we all get together, I just love it.

Domhnall Gleeson

All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.

Les Brown

For the eye is always in search of beauty, and if we do not gratify its desire for pleasure by a proportionate enlargement in these measures, and thus make compensation for ocular deception, a clumsy and awkward appearance will be presented to the beholder.

Vitruvius

Habit is a great deadener.

Samuel Beckett