Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his whole life...

But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

Albert Einstein

.. the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...

Stephen King

A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.

Sean Astin

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.

Cyril Cusack

I turned to look into his face one last time. It was as if I could see the whole universe in his eyes. Maybe he was God, maybe he was simply enlightened. I didn't care right then, in that blessed moment, I just loved him. Later, though, the love was to turn to hate, to fear. They seemed so opposite, the feelings, yet they were all one note on his flute.

Christopher Pike

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

George Orwell

If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.

Rob Corddry

The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Gerald W. Johnson

When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.

Della Reese

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

Henry A. Kissinger

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

A. C. Benson, The Upton Letters