"Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]"

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.”
“God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.”

Source : "The Inner Life: Why Do We Suffer?" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise legislature would do the same. It is folly to make laws on subjects beyond human prerogative, knowing that in the very nature of things they must be set aside. To make laws that man cannot and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. It is very important in a republic, that the people should respect the laws, for if we throw them to the winds, what becomes of civil government?”
“Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.”
“I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward for civilization-that is, spiritual civilization ... But automobiles have come, and they bring a greater change in our life than most of us expect. They are here, and almost all outward things are going to be different because of what they bring. They are going to alter war, and they are going to alter peace.”

Source : Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.128, Courier Corporation
“Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.”
“From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.”
“A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old.”

Source : "Hollywood's Responsibility for Smoking Deaths" by Joe Eszterhas, www.nytimes.com. August 9, 2002.

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