For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

Kevin Kelly

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

Albert Einstein

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Ernest Holmes

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

Blaise Pascal

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

Charles de Lint

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

Benjamin Walker

If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them .

Yogi Berra

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Italo Calvino

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Robert Byrne

People would rather be wrong than be different.

Henry Jacobsen

He who loves the law dies either mad or poor.

Thomas Middleton

If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.

Andrew Fletcher, Conversation Co