Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
Octave Mirbeau
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
Samuel Goldwyn
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
Isadora Duncan
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
The struggle is to synchronize the potential being with the actual being, to make a fruitful liaison between the man of yesterday and the man of tomorrow.
Henry Miller
Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.
Marguerite Yourcenar
A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
Indira Gandhi
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Learning is ever young, even in old age.
Aeschylus
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
Sophocles
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Antigone Sophocles
If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.
Claude Debussy
I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.
Arnold Schoenberg
If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.
Jean Sibelius
I don't know whether I like it, but it's what I meant.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Truth is child of time.
John (dramatist) Ford
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Novalis
The world is growing old;
Who would not be at rest and free
Where love is never cold?