“The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago (1973), Part I.

"So many books, so little time." -Frank Zappa

"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." -Frank Zappa

"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer." ― Muhammad Ali

"To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the perma nent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life. Knowledge is the plague of life, and consciousness, an open wound in its heart." - Emil Cioran, On The Heights of Despair.

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much so as to be understood." ~George Orwell

"The good writers are Henry James, Stephen Crane, and Mark Twain. That’s not the order they’re good in. There is no order for good writers." - Larry W. Phillips

Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint. ― Markus Herz

"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. ... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated." -- Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (more in comment)

"When the intention is to lie, numbers can make extraordinary liars." - Patricia Evangelista

"Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act..." - Aristotle

“No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.” - Ex Oblivione by H. P. Lovecraft

“He has control of the senate and the courts, he’s too dangerous to be left alive!” — Mace Windu (George Lucas, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)

I just want to be wonderful. ― Marilyn Monroe

"There never is, or was, or will be anything except the present." - Alan Watts

"The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else." - Aristotle

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” - George Orwell, “In Front of Your Nose,” Tribune, March 22, 1946.

"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth" - African proverb

"The danger in communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished." - George Bernard Shaw

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ― E.E. Cummings