"Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands."

“Of Love--may God exalt you! -the first part is jesting, and the last part is right earnestness. So majestic are its diverse aspects, they are too subtle to be described; their reality can only be apprehended by personal experience. Love is neither disapproved by Religion, nor prohibited by the Law; for every heart is in God's hands.”

“I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.”

Source : Luke Rhinehart (2012). “The Dice Man”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

“Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.”

“The tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dewdrops falling from roses on the bosom of the earth. Shut not thine ear, therefore, against the cries of the poor, neither harden thine heart against the calamities of the innocent.”

Source : Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1795). “The Œconomy of Human Life: Translated from an Indian Manuscript, Written by an Ancient Bramin. To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Manner in which the Said Manuscript was Discovered. In a Letter from an English Gentleman Now Residing in China to the Earl of E****..”, p.48

“Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms ...”

“Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.”

“A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.”

“The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.”