"Being one point ahead at the end - that's all that matters."

“Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace is the mother of unity. Peace is the rest of the blessed souls. Peace is the dwelling place of eternity.”

“The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.”

“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”

“My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.”

“Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.”

Source : "Honor Sacrifice by Supporting Vets" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2012.

“We write to make sense of it all.”

“The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.”

“The moon was so young, so strange, even as a young girl who is dreaming and is afraid to tell her dreams; and it was shining only for itself.”

Source : Leonid Andreyev (2005). “The Crushed Flower and Other Stories”, p.29, 1st World Publishing