"Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage."

-- Gabriele d'Annunzio

“Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.”

Source : Edwin Paxton Hood (1851). “Self-education”, p.65
“For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay...”
“I suppose my understanding of villains is that they're just people who are infected by all of the darker instincts - that they haven't got the discipline to make the right choices.”
“A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.”
“Seeing is looking at something in saturation. But we tend to look at something for, say, 1/30 of a second.”
“A need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower.”

Source : "Arvo Pärt 24 prelüüdi ühele fuugale". Documentary, DVD, 2002.
“Law never made men a whit more just.”

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