Daniel Michaud

“One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good or evil in the world. Patriotism is rampant in war and there are some good things about it. Just as self-respect and pride bring out the best in an individual, pride in family, pride in teammates, pride in hometown bring out the best in groups of people. War brings out the kind of pride in country that encourages its citizens in the direction of excellence and it encourages them to be ready to die for it. At no time do people work so well together to achieve the same goal as they do in wartime. Maybe that's enough to make patriotism eligible to be considered a virtue. If only I could get out of my mind the most patriotic people who ever lived, the Nazi Germans.”
― Andy Rooney, My War

“In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.”
― Richard Feynman

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“الصورة التي تنطبع في ذهنك عن ذكر اسم تولكين هي صورة رجل عاكف على مكتبه بين ألاف المسودات والملحوظات يعيد كتابة ومسح ما كتبه من جديد، يضع كل تفصيلة في عالمه بحرص شديد، هو رجل أقرب للبناء الذي يبني صرح كبير بحذر وبمقاييس دقيقة، لا فنان مغامر يلوح بريشته على لوحة فارغه بدون أن يدرك ما النتيجة التي ستخرج بالنهاية.”
― Ahmed Salah Al Mahdi