"Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow."

“For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.”

“For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and strong.”

Source : James Elroy Flecker, James Hogg (1976). “The Leysin Version of James Elroy Flecker's Hassan”

“I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.”

“Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.”

Source : Barbara Ward, René Jules Dubos (1972). “Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet: an Unofficial Report Commissioned by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment”, Penguin Books

“I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity Is lost in voices shouting to be heard…”

Source : William Alexander Percy (1944). “The collected poems of William Alexander Percy”

“It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or gender. It is not illegal to talk about it.”

“Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.”

“In the twilight, it was a vision of power.”