What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing Gad cared. There might be a God, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way, we're on our own.

Cassandra Clare

This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.

Janet Fitch

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

Dave Winfield

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

Chuck Palahniuk

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

Ian Somerhalder

In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.

Terry Eagleton

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

Jodi Picoult

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Madame de Stael

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

Jerzy Kosinski

Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Ann Richards

God is the same everywhere.

Leo Tolstoy