Work without love is slavery.

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

Naguib Mahfouz

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

Thomas Jefferson

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Agatha Christie

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

Blaise Pascal

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Plato

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

Lawrence Durrell

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

Patrick Marber

You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.

David Mamet

And know that I am with you always yes, to the end of time.

Jesus Christ

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Marcus Aurelius

The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Henry Ward Beecher