The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees

Benjamin Franklin

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Joseph Joubert

I've heard the word 'fear'. I simply choose to believe it doesn't apply to me.

Cassandra Clare

For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.

Oliver Goldsmith

The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.

J.K. Rowling

Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.

Gary Lineker

It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.

John Burroughs

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

Albert Einstein

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

David Puttnam

HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...

Alfred Tennyson

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

Cesar Chavez

I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia

Gayle Forman