1887A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.

But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.

The bars on our cage are of our own making.

Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.

But how right is it to kill a man for something that is in his soul?

Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.

Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.

What are we all chasing? Nella wonders. To live, of course. To be unbound from the invisible ropes that Johannes spoke of in his study. Or to be happy in them, at least.

A piece of art only succeeds when it's creator...possesses the belief that brings it into being

You are a stone, thrown upon a lake. But the ripples you create will never make you still.

This city is like no other city in the world. It is brilliant but it is bloated, and I've never called it home

The only way a man can realise his freedom, its only when he has freed his mind. Therefore, freedom means nothing if the mind is still not free. Free your mind and it will free your life too.

virtue can flower only when there is freedom.

Success is possible, Failure is possible, But nothing is impossible.

You may lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.

It's time for us all to step up. We've been extremely successful, but to be honest it's a reality check for everybody.

I like to take care of myself and know what foods I should be eating.

I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.

Being you is the only thing worth spotlighting.

The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state.We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.