Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
-Mark Twain
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-Winston S. Churchill
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is. The guru can give you words; he can give you an explanation, the symbols of the mind, but the symbol is not the real, and if you are caught in the symbol, you will never find the way.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.
-William Makepeace Thackeray