Sometimes it's the mistakes that turn out to be the best parts of life

In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded which becomes stronger in a man when he reaches an advanced age.

Life and death; there is no bridge between the two; they are stuck to each other! Death is only a step away from us, no more, only one step!

Imagine trying to live without air. Now imagine something worse.

Instead of narrowing our allegiances to only include our favored nation, let us sing an anthem to the marvelous human being.

Every writer on this planet THINKS he is a great writer {why waste your entire life writing when you believe you are mediocre?} but it is deemed socially unacceptable to actually speak out such...

I don't so much hope that any reader "agrees" with me, as I hope to haunt them, to trouble their sense of how things actually are.

It is common to seek perfection, but it is stupid to believe that you will ever reach it.

A man is known by the books he reads.

Life would be simpler if only we were all unicorns.

Most fires crackle and pop, but that's not really the fire talking, it's the wood. To hear the fire itself you need a huge blaze like this one, a furnace so powerful it roars with its own wind. I...

Edmund felt despair eating away at his victory. Why is the world like this? He shivered. Why does it feel so cold, so hard? A smile flickered on John's face, one that was neither happy nor sad. What...

My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Madness is a matter of perspective, little dreamer.

In life there are perfect moments. You cannot plan them - the very act interferes with the laws of the universe - but you must be ready to recognise them when they come.

Perfection is not something you strive for. Perfection is in the eyes of the beholder. Perfection is a state of grace, of peace of serenity, a moment as fleeting as a smile.

It's easy to forget that life is the greatest gift of all

How old did someone have to be before they could be put to use to make tea?

MYSTERIES, YES Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while...

Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly....

All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the sole holdout - nothing can explain it. A Chinese writer...

Everything is a tool - a boot, a sled, a dog - and a hand, an arm, even a man! If it breaks down you throw it away and you march on! It's brutal, yes! And it's ugly. But anything else is sentiment and...

"Then are there no rules at all, Lord?" Moneo's voice conveyed a faint hint of hysteria. Leto smiled to ease the man's tensions. "Perhaps one. Short–term decisions tend to fail in the long–term."

Shamefully, all of us have wanted revenge on someone at some point for something. I've lived since before man and buffalo roamed this small planet. I have survived the beginning, bloom, and death of...

If we choose to, we can live in a world of comforting illusions. We can allow ourselves to be deceived by false realities. Or we can use them to hide our true intentions.

Doubt was a giant - sized beast with heavy boots that pounded through the cities of the mind, sparking an occasional life only so Hope could rise again for a splendid recrushing. Doubt reveled in...

Erik wondered if they saw the irony of such a tiny complex expecting to find the cure from the very lives they minimized in comparison to the whole. If such small, little lives mattered not, how could...

I am made of words. When you cut me, I bleed sentences. When you read me, I speak to your soul.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out - more like, they figure themselves out - and everything gets real clear.

To wish a life without stairs, without hills and mountains is to wish a dim life without the joy of rising with our own efforts!