The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon...

…Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee. Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909?14, p.1)

The greatest ideas are the simplest. William Golding, Lord of The Flies

Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief. Ty King, Written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode Passion, voice over by David Boreanaz

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. Epictetus, Serendipity

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were. Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme...

Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather. Jordan, Robert