"Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients."

-- Samuel Johnson

#Book Quotes #Moon Quotes #Light Quotes

“Man is his own star, and the soul that can, render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate: nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts are angels are, for good or ill: our fatal shadows that walk by us still.”
“The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.”
“Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die.”
“The great thing about acting is the longer you do it, the more you realize that all those realities are inside you. No matter how crazy they are, you can pretend that they are a part of you. The great thing about this job is you get to play with every aspect of your id and who you are.”
“All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.”

Source : "What Can We Do In Wartime?", September 9, 1939.
“Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.”
“Im very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.”
“It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.”

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