Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life...Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas, everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy?

Aldous Huxley

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

B. K. Sandwell

Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all they're interested in is hairdos and looking at other beautiful people. Maybe they're interested in learning something.

David James Elliott

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Henry Home

Some people talk of Africa being a continent cursed not blessed with minerals, but the real curse is the leaders and politicians of Africa

Peter Mutanda

My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.

Mitt Romney

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Logan Pearsall Smith

They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.

Stephen King

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Dag Hammarskjold

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Karl Marx