War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with. (Lois McMaster Bujold)

I will love the light for it shows me the way, Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. (Og Mandino)

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty. (Edmund Spenser)

If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

As ill-luck would have it. (Miguel de Cervantes)

If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter. (Henry Elliot)

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education. (Smiley Blanton)

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes. (Douglas Noel Adams)

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving. (Penn Jillette)

A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself. (Barbara Burrow)

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time. (Dorothy Gilman)

There's no jealousy in the grave. (Rudyard Kipling)

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning. (William Shakespeare)

When the Japanese mend broken objects they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold, because they believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. (Barbara Bloom)

Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil. (Baltasar Gracian)

If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas. (Harold Abelson)

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. (Albert Camus)

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too. (Henrik Ibsen)

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)

A Shade upon the mind there passesAs when on NoonA Cloud the mighty Sun encloses. (Emily Elizabeth Dickinson)