Men destroy each other during war; themselves during peacetime.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
-Elvis Presley
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Love is the firstborn, loftier than the gods, fathers and men. You, O Love, are the eldest of all, altogether mighty. To you we pay homage!...
When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe