„The object of presenting medals, stars, and ribbons is to give pride and pleasure to those who have deserved them. At the same time a distinction is something which everybody does not possess. If all have it it is of less value … A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.“

— Winston S. Churchill

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„Whatever has value in our world now does not have value in itself, according to its nature — nature is always value-less, but has been given value at some time, as a present — and it was we who gave and bestowed it.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.“
— Cassandra Clare
„All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.“
— Paulo Coelho
„The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.“
— Dale Carnegie
„… like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.“
— Homér
„People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
„All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?“
— Nikos Kazantzakis