“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.” George Orwell
“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.” Thomas Stearns Eliot
“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.” Hans Christian Andersen
