"Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars."

“I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.”

“When a whole system is composed of a numbers of subsystems, the one that tends to dominate is the least stable.”

“A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.”

Source : Vittorio Alfieri (1815). “The tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri”, p.245

“I'm very new to the industry. I'm not on the Billboard 200 and that is alarming to me. But when I sat down with my management they said it's not a big deal and that it happens all the time.”

“There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.”

Source : Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.331, Macmillan

“The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.”

“The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.”

Source : "The Meaning of Life and Other Essays" by A.J. Ayer, ("The Concept of Freedom"), 1990.

“Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as important as they seem to you.”