Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

John Fowles, The Magus

Don't you wish that we could forget that kiss And see this for what it is That we're not in love

Leslie Feist

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

Pierre Salinger

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

Ibrahim Babangida

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Plato

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Albert Einstein

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The more wit the less courage.

Thomas Fuller

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

Ellen G. White

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

Bertrand Russell