"Death is not too great a price for a life fully lived."

-- Willi Unsoeld

“With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.”
“Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if you worked your arms down to the stub, if you won a hundred battles, and faithfully gave the last drop of your blood for your country, you would always be a slave. There is no land for you, no heaven, no shelter, not even a doghouse where you could rest your poor head. You are the last before God and before people, the last one.”
“She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.”
“Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.”

Source : Flavius Josephus (1825). “The Works of Josephus--: Containing Twenty Books of the Jewish Antiquities, Seven Books of the Jewish War, and the Life of Josephus”, p.128
“One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.”
“I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.”
“There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding their complexity. If the race is won by our tools, then systems will eventually become easier to use and more reliable. If not, they will continue to become harder to use and less reliable for all but a relatively small set of common tasks. Given how hard thinking is, if those intellectual tools are to succeed, they will have to substitute calculation for thought.”
“I donâ€™t get wrapped up in technique and the like. I have a simple rule and that is to spend as much time in the location as possible. You canâ€™t expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years. And in fact I donâ€™t believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. Thatâ€™s why I love it so much.”

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