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- The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance.
- Elliot Perlman, Seven Types of Ambiguity
- To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.
- Jacques Bossuet (1627 - 1704), French anthology "Et Toi Mon Coeur Pourquoi Bats-tu"
- Only the dead have seen the end of war.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
- Harper Lee (1926 - ), To Kill a Mockingbird
- But I am a dreamer
So you sent me away. Sometimes we dreamers Just get in the way. - Shawn Mullins, Anchored In You
- If you live life, then you become what are.
- Dave Matthews, What You Are
- The only place where democracy comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Ralph Nader (1934 - ), 2000 NAACP Address
- Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.
- Neil Diamond (1941 - ), Husbands and Wives
- I thought love was more or less a giving thing.
Seems the more I gave, the less I got. - Neil Diamond (1941 - ), I'm A Believer
- 'I am,' I said
To no one there, And no one heard at all. - Neil Diamond (1941 - ), I Am... I Said
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