Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I think it's because these stories are not just fantasy. They're about real life. We've all encountered wicked wolves, found fairy godmothers, and faced trial by fire. We've all set off into unknown woods at one point in life or another. We've all had to learn to tell friend from foe and to be kind to crones by the side of the road. . . .

This is a book which I would recommend to anyone who is walking through the pain of abuse. A book of courage in the face of overwhelming odds; a book which will touch your heart and give you hope.

Ruth Hawkey

The only certain freedom's in departure.

Robert Frost

Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.

Jane Austen

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.

Don Miller

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

David Puttnam

Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life.

Rebecca Romijn

I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.

Haile Gebrselassie

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

Raoul Vaneigem

In science, read, by preference, the newest works in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. And therefore, this courage allows us, as the old men said, to make ourselves useful. It allows us to be generous, which is another way of saying exactly the same thing.

Marilynne Robinson

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

William Trevor

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Robert Burns