After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organised; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.
The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness; but by the end of the 21st century there was no region left on Earth that could be safely used for celestial target practice.
Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.
-Nora Roberts
What is the difference between a theist and an atheist? An atheist is the one
who fails to recognize the ultimate supremacy of nature; hence he is trying to
enhance life with the help of the knowledge cultivated by his brain. A theist is
the one who does not apply his brain at all. He completely surrenders to the
existence, allowing nature to make and mould him as it deems right.
-Deep Trivedi
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-Oscar Wilde
Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.
-Robert Patrick "Bob" Casey, Jr.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-Patricia Sampson