It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing—it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human race is based on.

The past is not dead - it isn't even past

The most beautiful thing under the sun is being under the sun.

Between killing and dying there's a third way: live

Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know.

When we stop hoping, that which we fear will certainly come.

I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

There are secrets that ravage you, others that make you stronger.

I've known one thing for a long time: there's a role in the big machine even for someone who makes fun of it.

Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.

He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.

If you can give your walls history, it supports the action that's happening in front of them.

I wouldn't do anything if I didn't have something I was working for.

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

Russell Wilson has got a tremendous competitive mindset and it stems from the confidence that he feels based on the preparation that he puts in.