“It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.”— Alexander Fleming, en.wikiquote.org
“I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: "You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian"? I don't think that is the case — because, you see, God is not a Christian.”— Desmond Tutu, news.bbc.co.uk
“I had two mothers, two childhoods, lived two different lives in two different cities. Maybe that's why I became two different people.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.”— Karl Lagerfeld, glamourmagazine.co.uk
“One who could make of himself a vacuum into which others might freely enter would become master of all situations. The whole can always dominate the part.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You swallowed everything, like distance. Like the sea, like time. In you everything sank!”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“Maybe there aren’t any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you’re hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they’re always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for too, if that’s what has t…”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Silence is always beautiful, and a silent person is always more beautiful than one who talks.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others, find it in a person.”— Beau Taplin, beautaplin.com
“You can’t make homes out of human beings, someone should have already told you that.”— Warsan Shire, genius.com
“I have learnt that a man who makes trouble for others is also making it for himself.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“Over the years you have built an idealized self-image that you defend as "me." In this image are packed all the things you want to see as true about yourself; banished from it are all the shameful, guilty, and fear-provoking aspects that would threaten your self-confidence.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com