It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
-Mark Twain
The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender’s inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for everyone else the proper pleasure of ritual.
There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.
-Nicholas Sparks
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
No work stains an individual who is pure, who is in harmony, who is master of his life, whose soul is one with the soul of all.
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel