"Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was."

“Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.”

Source : Peter Kropotkin (2014). “Memoirs of a Revolutionist”, p.468, Courier Corporation

“I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but treating them well and with respect seems the least we could do, and with 'we' I mean not just zoo staff, but most certainly also the public.”

“I'm coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing”

“Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.”

Source : Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.47, Hackett Publishing

“If a man considers that he is born, he cannot avoid the fear of death. Let him find out if he has been born or if the Self has any birth. He will discover that the Self always exists, that the body that is born resolves itself into thought and that the emergence of thought is the root of all mischief. Find from where thoughts emerge. Then you will be able to abide in the ever-present inmost Self and be free from the idea of birth or the fear of death.”

“when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.”

Source : Martha Albrand (1950). “Wait for the Dawn”

“The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.”

“Thinking of Plan B muddies up your chances of succeeding at Plan A.”