Faithful are the wounds of a friend.

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

C.S. Lewis

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.

Mark Twain

Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisements said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighborhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches. Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: 'Learn, guys...

Neil Gaiman

In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem

J. A. Dever

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

Greil Marcus

Only the other world has substance and reality only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

Abraham Cahan

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

Nigella Lawson

Her lips found his and a stab of exquisite desire shot through him. This is what he's been waiting for all this time. Not a stolen embrace. A gift, freely given. One that he would keep forever in some small part of his soul.

Courtney Milan

Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going?

Anonymous

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Lao Tzu

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Albert Schweitzer

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

Constantin Stanislavski