If you young fellows were wise the devil couldn't do anything to you but since you aren't wise you need us who are old.
Martin Luther
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
Franz Kafka
It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation, the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
William F. Buckley, Jr.
At such moments you realize that you and the other are in fact one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
Joseph Campbell
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Solitary trees if they grow at all grow strong.
Winston Churchill
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor when to God who is the searcher of our hearts all our privacies are open?
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
Emile M. Cioran
At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.
Alice Walker
