"The struggle alone pleases us not the victory."
- Blaise Pascal
"One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith one's love when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion."
- Anais Nin
"Youth is after all just a moment but it is the moment the spark that you always carry in your heart."
- Raisa M. Gorbachev
"As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so."
"The past and present are only our means the future is always our end. Thus we never really live but only hope to live."
"There are very few human beings who receive the truth complete and staggering by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment on a small scale by successive developments cel..."
"All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room."
"Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life."
"A war regarded as inevitable or even probable and therefore much prepared for has a very good chance of eventually being fought."
"I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God."
- Francois Rabelais