Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, and more aware of his own living body than ever before. Why had he never appreciated what a miracle he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart? It would all be gone...or at least, he would be gone from it. His breath came slow and deep, and his mouth and throat were completely dry, but so were his eyes.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

For man he seemsIn all his lineaments, though in his faceThe glimpses of his Fathers glory shine.

John Milton

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

Jodi Picoult

Truth starts with truth and ends with truth.

Santosh Kalwar

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

Rumi

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man is wise enough by himself.

Plautus

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Bob Hope

I went to look for a used car and found my wife's dress in the back seat.

Rodney Dangerfield

I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only change Bessie. And honey, that ain't easy either.

Annie Elizabeth Delany

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.

King Hussein I

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.

Philip Pullman