Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. Jean Cocteau
It's a useful habit to never believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own. Halldór Laxness
My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally. J. R. R. Tolkien
In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public. Andrei Sakharov
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. Edward Hopper
The essence of love is getting out of oneself and into others. When we care less about our feelings, our rights, our happiness, our security, etc., and begin to concern ourselves with the feelings, rights, happiness, and security of others, we will have found the true power of love. Leo Buscaglia