Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.

Mercedes Lackey

One travels long distances not solely for large gatherings, but for something more intangible. I have always gone out on a limb for love. A dangerous, romantic, disappointing way to live.

Jennifer Ball

Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

George Eliot

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying.

W. H. Auden

I can't give a Professor love!

J.K. Rowling

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Benjamin Franklin

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

George Santayana, The Letters of

Every singly lifetime, I'll choose you. Just as you have chosen me. Forever.

Lauren Kate

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Harry S Truman

Make religion attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. Worthy of reverence because it really understands human nature. Attractive because it promises true good.

Blaise Pascal

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

Benjamin Franklin