The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
-Paulo Coelho
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
To understand oneself profoundly, one needs balance. Neither renunciation nor acquiescence.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
-Edmond De Goncourt
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
-Richard Bach
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius