“Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.”

-Thomas Merton

“All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience.”

-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects."
-Wislawa Szymborska

"History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men."
-Henry Louis Mencken

"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them."
- Warren G. Bennis

"Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction."
- Jean Dubuffet

"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. "
- Kahlil Gibran

“I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.”
- Kahlil Gibran

“Style is primarily a matter of instinct.”
- Bill Blass

“I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.”
- Patricia Hewitt

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
- Douglas Adams