A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
Simone Weil
Reality does not conform to the ideal but confirms it.
Gustave Flaubert
My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide and altogether beyond his hopes meet with the good hap to be murdered.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
Barack Obama
If only for the sake of elegance I try to remain morally pure.
Marcel Proust
Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.
Donald Rumsfeld
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
Ronald Reagan
The squirrel that you kill in jest dies in earnest.
Henry David Thoreau
The desire to die was my one and only concern, to it I have sacrificed everything even death.
Emile M. Cioran
