Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other mens labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatable things, called by the same nameliberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatable namesliberty and tyranny.

Abraham Lincoln

When you start a family, couples give up their personal love to achieve a greater responsibility - to nurture their children into good human beings, and nothing should deter them from that goal until the kids are on their own feet

Siddharth Katragadda

Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

James Joyce, Ulysses (p. 273 Ch

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

Charles de Secondat

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.

Charles Baudelaire

Perform your task and I shall know you. Perform your task and your genius shall befriend the more.

Ogwo David Emenike

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

Geraldine Brooks

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

Virginia Woolf

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

Thomas Aquinas

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity

Aristotle

I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.

Petra Nemcova

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Marie Curie