Some defeats [are] more triumphant than victories. – Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1588
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If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. – Albert Camus
You might hold an ethical position that its wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons – to reduce casualties, perhaps – and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a good outcome. – Peter Singer
The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldnt cross the road to see them. Its people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones. – Nick Lowe