"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

"It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us the good service of telling us the truth about ourselves. When we don't, we can so easily delude ourselves, lose a sense of truth about ourselves, and our conscience loses power and purpose. Mostly, we tell ourselves what we would like to hear. We lose our way."
— Jon Katz

"All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity."
— Robert Kennedy

"We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed."
— Thomas Jefferson

"kalepa ta kala"
— dunno...some Greek

"This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche