When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.
-Ambrose Bierce
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
-Erich Fromm
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.
Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.
-Edward Carey
I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
-Erica Jong
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
All good people are weak; they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.