Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
-Jasper Fforde
In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
-Lord Byron
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
-François De La Rochefoucauld