When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
For him who has completed the journey, for him who is sorrowless, for him who from everything is wholly free, for him who has destroyed all ties, the fever of passion exists not… He is like a pool, unsullied by mud; to such a balanced one, life’s wanderings do not arise. Calm is his mind, calm is his speech, calm is his action, who, rightly knowing, is wholly freed, perfectly peaceful and equipoised.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-Henry Ford
A man lives by believing something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
-Thomas Carlyle
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may… meet with great misfortunes.
-Aristotle
The mode of living which is founded upon a total harmlessness towards all creatures upon a minimum of such harm is the highest morality.