Long is the way And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light
- Paradise Lost, John Milton
We dance round in a ring and suppose while the secret sits in the middle and knows.
- The Secret Sits, Robert Frost
- The Secret Sits, Robert Frost
Make your choice, adventurous stranger. Strike the bell and bide the
danger, or wonder, till it drives you mad, what would have followed if
you had...
- Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
- Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
- The Lord of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
- The Lord of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
A story is a letter than the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
- The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King Jr
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great
men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not
authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or certainty of
corruption by full authority. There is no worse heresy than the fact
that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
- From a letter to Mandell Creighton published in Historical Essays and Studies, John Dalberg-Acton,
- From a letter to Mandell Creighton published in Historical Essays and Studies, John Dalberg-Acton,