„Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?“

— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

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„You're not so bad. You'll get there. You should have seen Alec do flips at first. I think he kicked himself in the head once.“
— Cassandra Clare
„People have become so degraded in this Kali Yuga that they think they can do anything, and then they can go to a holy place, and their sins will be forgiven. If a man goes with an impure mind into a temple, he adds to the sins that he had already, and goes home a worse man than when he left it.“
— Swami Vivekananda
„After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.“
— Edgar Allan Poe
„Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.“
— Dale Carnegie