Today

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come,

Whispering 'it will be happier'...”

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

“And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again...”

- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.”

- John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

“She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.”

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”

―Roy L. Smith

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

-Nelson Mandela

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”

- Thomas Jefferson

“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

- George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.”

- Jonathan Harnisch, Freak