How glorious it is — and also how painful — to be an exception. – Alfred de Musset

My theory is that the hardest work anyone does in life is to appear normal. – From the movie Ed TV

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. – Joseph De Maistre

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. People get the history they deserve. – Charles de Gaulle