White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Horace

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Man tends to root for the underdog, because he fears that he will find himself in that same position far too often.

Michael S. Rosenberg

Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life ... would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

Clifford D. Simak

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind.

George Orwell, as quoted in Soni

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

Ayn Rand

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.

Henny Youngman

Do you like me?No answer.Silence bounced, fell off his tongueand sat between usand clogged my throat.It slaughtered my trust.It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.We exchanged blind words,and I did not cry,I did not beg,but blackness filled my ears,blackness lunged in my heart,and something that had been good,a sort of kindly oxygen,turned into a gas oven.

Anne Sexton

- Wy, ludzie, mówicie o ?yciu i ?mierci, jakby to by?y dwie rzeczy wzajemnie si? wykluczaj?ce, jakby nie istnia?a rzeka, b?d?ca równie? drog?, czy pie??, b?d?ca kolorem.- Bo nie istniej? - odpar? Cie?. - Prawda? - Echa znad wody powtarza?y szeptem jego s?owa.- Musisz pami?ta? - rzek? cierpko pan Ibis - ?e ?ycie i ?mier? to dwie strony tej samej monety, jak orze? i reszka na ?wier?dolarówce.- A gdybym mia? ?wier?dolarówk? o dwóch or?ach?- Ale nie masz. Miewaj? je tylko g?upcy i bogowie.

Neil Gaiman

The gods were great, but what good was greatness if you didn't love?

Lev Grossman