"... active love is a harsh and..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“If you happen to have a wart on your nose or forehead, you cannot help imagining that no one in the world has anything else to do but stare at your wart, laugh at it, and condemn you for it, even though you have discovered America.”

“One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.”

“One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms... [an]will attain his object-that is, convince himself he is a man and not a piano-key!”

“Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.”

“The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.”

“Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone.”

“It's time we stop worrying, and get angry you know? But not angry and pick up a gun, but angry and open our minds.”

“When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.”

“There are some things you don’t have to know how it works – only that it works. While some people are studying the roots, others are picking the fruit. It just depends on which end of this you want to get in on." -- Jim Rohn”