Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.

~beautiful soul weeps deep~

That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It’s awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.

Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.

I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed.

I do not fear invisible worlds.

There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

I'm very claustrophobic.

Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.

In a change effort, culture comes last, not first.

We pick on retail, I think, because each individual has experience with retail. It is easy to talk about.

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

The most important phase of living with a person: the respect for that person as an individual.

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

... there’s also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?” - Paul Hudson