"Love is an interruption or an aberration, a force in opposition to the ultimate inertia of the universe."

Marguerite Duras

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure."

Clarence Darrow

"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Courage is being scared to death- but saddling up anyway."

John Wayne

"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."

Edmund Burke

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

Plato

"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."

Seneca

"Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers."

Voltaire

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

Charles Kingsley

"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."

Elbert Hubbard

"It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived."

Rene Descartes

"Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds
Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds
To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets:
More needs she the divine than the physician"

Macbeth, Act V, Scene 2

"Reason is immortal, all else mortal."

Pythagoras