"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."

-- James Thurber

"A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it."

-- J.R.R. Tolkien

"The right to speak out is also the duty to speak out."

-- Vladimir Pozner [journalist]

"To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakable perfect miracle."

-- Walt Whitman

"Despite the human capacity to survive and adapt, traumatic experiences can alter people’s psychological, biological, and social equilibrium to such a degree that the memory of one particular event comes to taint all other experiences, spoiling appreciation of the present. This tyranny of the past interferes with the ability to pay attention to both new and familiar situations. When people come to concentrate selectively on reminders of their past, life tends to become colorless, and contemporary experience ceases to be a teacher."

-- Bessel A. Van Der Kolk [psychologist]

"I never give them hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell."

-- Harry S. Truman

"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity."

-- George Bernard Shaw

"A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept."

-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon [novelist]

"I really don't believe in magic. I believe in some kinds -- the magic of imagination and the magic of love. But the magic of waving a wand and making things happen, no."

-- J.K. Rowling

"Hatred is a sentiment that leads to the extinction of values."

-- Jose Ortega y Gasset