"Maybe this world is another planet's hell." - Aldous Huxley

"Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important.  This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels." - W.H. Auden

"It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself.  To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work." - George Bernard Shaw

"Death is losing its terror.  It is becoming the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening than death ever was." - Julian Green

"The more I saw of the world, the less I was able to adjust to is ways." - Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Although I conquer all the earth, yet for me there is only one city.  In that city there is for me only one house; and in that house, one room only; and in the room, a bed.  And one woman sleeps there, the shining joy and jewel of all my kingdom." - Translated from the Sanskrit

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists - not so good when people obey and acclaim him.  Worse when they despise him.  But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done - his aim fulfilled, they will say: 'We did it ourselves.'" - Lao-Tse

"A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away.  He must have time to modify his shape." - Mark Twain

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." - Indira Ghandi

"Some people's idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage." - Winston Churchill

"Inveniemus viam aut faciemus." (We will find a way - or we will make one!) - Hannibal

"You were once wild here.  Don't let them tame you!" - Isadora Duncan

"Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures." - Samuel Johnson

"He set my heart floating on the honey stream of his words, with his amorous kiss he burnt my lips, and left me utterly alone and unfulfilled." - Kahtrayya

"You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge." - Kahlil Gibran

"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is not our toughness that keeps us warm at night, but our tenderness which makes others want to keep us warm." - Harol Lyon

"Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were decievers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never
Then sigh not so and let them go
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into Hey nonny, nonny."
    - William Shakespeare

"I'm in love, and out of it I will not go." - C.S. Lewis

"El es un entreverado loco, lleno de lucidos intervalos." (He's an intermittant fool, full of lucid intervals.) - Miguel de Cervantes, "Don Quixote"

"No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight." - H.L. Mencken

"Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" (But who will guard the guards themselves?) - Juvenal

"In the faces of men and women I see God." - Walt Whitman

"The three foundations of learning: seeing much, suffering much, and studying much." - Caterall

"Virtue has need of limits." - Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

"Children reinvent your world for you." - Susan Sarandon

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you." - William Shakespeare

"When women go wrong, men go right after them." - Mae West

"Thou are to me a delicious torment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whether they give or refuse, women are glad that they have been asked." - Ovid

"It furthers a person to have somewhere to go." - I Ching

"How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth?" - Kahlil Gibran

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." - William Blake

"I repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things." - Dorothy Parker

"The lowest ebb is the turning of the tide." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Let the zealots think that loving is sinful - never mind let me burn in the hellfire of that sin." - Mikri Hatun

"Tout le monde se plaint de sa memoire, et personne ne se plaint de son jugement." (Everyone complains of his memory, no one of his judgement.) - Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

"One man with courage is a majority." - Andrew Jackson

"Man's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the mark is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim - improve yourself." - Gilbert Arland

"Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand." - Thomas Carlyle

"Someday after we have mastered the air, the winds, the tides, and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of love.  And then for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire." - Teilhard de Chardin

"Listen to me for a day - an hour! - a moment.  Lest I expire in my terrible wilderness, my lonely silence!  O God, is there no one to listen?" - Seneca

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little." - Plutarch

"O fairest of Creation, last and best
Of all God's Works!  Creature in whom excell'd
Whatever can to sight or thought be form'd,
Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!"
    - John Milton

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks." - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln

"You are the same today that you'll be five years from now except for two things: the people you meet and the books you read." - Mac McMillan

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love." - Sophocles