O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
--Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
--Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

Silence is a text easy to misread.
--A. A. Attanasio, 'The Eagle and the Sword'

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
--Henri Amiel

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
--Unknown

An eye for an eye ends up making the whole world blind.

--Mahatma Gandhi