An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. Freedom consists not in [...]

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fuelled by a quotation. E. M. Cioran More Favourite Quotations

Allow me to furnish the interior of my head as I please, and I shall put up with a hat like everybody else’s. Henri Bergson More Favourite Quotations

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. F. Scott Fitzgerald More Favourite Quotations

The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. Dylan Thomas More Favourite Quotations

The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery. Fred Alan Wolf More Favourite Quotations

The desire of acquiring the comforts of the world haunts the imagination of the poor, and the dread of losing them that of the rich. Alexis de Tocqueville More Favourite Quotations

-We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. -You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning… a place where you can simply experience and [...]