"In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature . They can't help it."

“I'm working on guitars for free, because I love working on guitars anyway.”

“We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.”

“Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry? You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.”

“The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.”

Source : Ian Kershaw (2002). “Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich, Bavaria 1933-1945”, p.277, Oxford University Press

“The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but does not give them a tribal structure in which to accomplish both in balance. It used to be that the tribe formed a boy's character while the peer group existed primarily to test and befriend that character. Nowadays, boys' characters are often formed in the peer group. Mentors and intimate role models rarely exist to show the growing boy in any long-term and consistent way how both to serve a group and flourish as an independent self.”

Source : Michael Gurian (2006). “The Wonder of Boys”, p.71, Penguin

“He was the most perfectly formed man she'd ever imagined. He was movie stars, men in underwear commercials, guys at the gym, the construction worker in the red T-shirt who'd whistled at her but she'd pretended she hadn't heard; he was the men in three-piece suits whose brains were as sexy as their bodies; he was lazy, indolent seventeen-year-old boys whose muscles bulged out of their clothes, rodeo stars, and those smooth-cheeked, eyeglassed men who held their children tenderly. He was all of them.”

Source : Jude Deveraux (2012). “Sweet Liar”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

“There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.”

“Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.”