It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
Life is life – Whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
-Sri Aurobindo
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-E. M. Forster
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
-Mahatma Gandhi
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-Winston S. Churchill
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb