"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

-- Voltaire

#Honesty Quotes #Fear Quotes #Integrity Quotes

“Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.”
“I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.”
“You know, it's just politics, it's a game grown-ups like to play, like we lil' children play with toys.”
“I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.”
“That song "Futuro" was written by Quique Rangel, the bassist. I wouldn't know how to explain the song, but each would have to give their own interpretation. If the lyrics generate that message for you, then that's good.”
“I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.”
“The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.”
“Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?”

Source : Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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