"At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets."

“When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.”

Source : "Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera". Book by Anne Carson, www.newyorker.com. 2005.

“Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.”

“It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going.”

Source : "Astronaut-turned-artist Alan Bean still reaching for the moon". www.cnn.com. July 16, 1999.

“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.”

Source : John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.183, Hackett Publishing

“My love was alive, not because I was loved, but because I myself loved!”

Source : "'I was Casanova's very first lover'" by Laura Baggaley, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2005.

“And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.”

“In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.”

Source : 1965 TheAnatomy of BritainToday, ch.9.

“The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.”