- "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." - Joseph Conrad
- "Try again, fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett
- "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William Faulkner
- "Don't forget that I cannot see myself -- that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror." - Jacques Rigaut
- "Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?" - Rose Kennedy
- "A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses. It is an idea that possesses the mind." - Robert Oxton Bolton
- "Evil is always unspectacular and always human. And shares our bed...and eats at our table." - WH Auden
- "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln
- "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe." - Friedrich Neitzsche
- "Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness." - WH Auden
- "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent." - Mahatma Gandhi
- "Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it." - Mark Twain
- "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." - Plato
- "Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always." - Mahatma Gandhi
- "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." - Thomas Paine
- "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi
- "Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed." - GK Chesterton
- "For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won." - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- "The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering." - Ben Okri
- "All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another." - Anatole France
- "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime." - Ernest Hemingway
- “There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.” - Gilbert Parker
- "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats." - HL Mencken
- "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." - Terry Pratchett
- "You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around -- and why his parents will always wave back." - Journalist William D. Tammeus
- "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
- "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love." - Washington Irving
- "Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn." - CS Lewis
- There are things we don't want to happen, but have to accept; things we don't want to know, but have to learn, and people we can't live without, but have to let go. - JJ
- "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." - Ralph Ellison
- “Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.” - Paul Rodriguez
- "Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been." - Agathon
- "The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract positive thinking." - Albert Einstein
- "True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost." - Arthur Ashe
- "If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking is freedom." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
- "No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness is always there first." -Terry Pratchett
- “It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.” - Buddha
- “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” - Albert Einstein
- "The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." - Albert Einstein
- "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." - Paul Boese
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