Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known.

for a purpose without reason

One cannot take a coward on dangerous missions or trust one’s fortune to a fool. How then are cowards and fools to be employed?

A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.

He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.

[O]ld enough to be wise yet young enough to be willing to partake in an arduous crusade.

Make a promise to yourself that you will always choose growth over safe and dreams over fear.

Tis enough - Who listens once will listen twice Her heart be sure is not of ice And one refusal no rebuff.

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind

Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant bliss and unfelt slavery.

I don't really have a problem saying good-bye to things. All things come to an end.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.