I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.

No net less wide than a man's whole heart, nor less fine of mesh than love, will hold the sacred Fish.

C.S. Lewis

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Then the enchantment became more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and silver was flowing over him, too multitudinous for its pattern to be comprehended; it became part of the throbbing air about him, and it drenched and drowned him. Swiftly he sank under its shining weight into a deep realm of sleep.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Robert Smithson

The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves

Newton Diehl Baker

I love you Anna Covey,' he said, his voice barely audible. And slowly, clumsily, he leant forward, and his lips found hers, and Anna felt him kiss her awkwardly, she knew that she wasn't a Surplus any more. And nor was Peter.

Gemma Malley

To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the lives around us. Life is the gift each of us has been given. Each life is our own and no one else's. It is precious beyond all counting. It is the greatest value we can have. Cherish it for what it truly is..... Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it.

Terry Goodkind

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

Abdul Kalam

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death

Neil Gaiman

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

James Allen

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie