Fate is what Heaven imparts.

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.

Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.

Cover the earth, before it covers you.

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.

If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

Words are one of the most powerful things given to human beings. In the hands of artists who can use them properly they are like weapons of mass construction.

I want to take a break from everything, to find out if.....i'm still ALIVE!

You Englishmen, ’ said Herr Wurter. ‘You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word was law.

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars

I can't seem to keep my heart from leaking out of the cracks, like sand clutched in a fist.

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.

Well, half of half our faction.' 'In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,' Lynn says.