- "... carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and ugly out of your living time." Mistry, Family Matters, p. 310
- "But in the end all human being become candidates for compassion, all of us, without exception... and if we can recognize their from the beginning, what a saving in pain, and grief, and misery." Mistry, Family Matters
- "Just as there are no Canadians, there are no Montrealers. Ask a man who he is and he names a race." Leonard Cohen, The Favourite Game, p. 125
- "Now he was sure. It was the first thing in a long time he had learned about himself. He wanted no legions to command. He didn't want to stand on any marble balcony. He didn't want to ride with Alexander, to be a boy king. He didn't want to smash his fist across the city, lead the Jews, have visions, love multitudes, bear a mark on his forehead, look in every mirror...for a reflection of the mark. He wanted comfort. He wanted to be comforted." Leonard Cohen, The Favourite Game, p. 159
- Pe atunci, ca si astazi, nu existau secrete, ci numai iluzia lor. Ionel Teodoreanu, Masa Umbrelor, p. 127
- History is a set of lies agreed upon. Bonaparte
- Man is the only animal who blushes. Or needs to. Twain
- Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think about ourselves and how little we think about the other person. Twain
- All you need in life is ignorance and confidence. Twain
- Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Twain
- To you I'm an atheist; to god, I'm the loyal opposition. Woody Allen
- Temperance is moderation in all things healthful, and total abstinence from all things harmful. Xenophon
- Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. Kahlil Gibran
- Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony. Gandhi
- Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. Lennon
- Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy. Aristotle
- Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Horace Walpole
- You can read the life you've lived so far, but you cannot change a word. Cohen
- 'As I grow older, I like to listen to stories from the elderly'. Cohen
- 'It's not death that scares me. It's the preliminaries.' - Cohen
- Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Camus
- To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle any human human being can fight. E.E. Cummings
