Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Hans Christian Andersen
Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps. Hans Christian Andersen
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. Thomas Mann
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. Thomas Mann
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. Edgar Rice Burroughs
Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue? Edgar Rice Burroughs
I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life. Edgar Rice Burroughs