That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

Benjamin Spock

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Vince Lombardi

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Jean Giraudoux, The Enchanted, 1

I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of that nineteenth-century science which denied existence to anything it could not measure or explain. The things we couldn't explain went right on but surely not with our blessing. We did not see what we couldn't explain, and meanwhile a great part of the world was abandoned to children, insane people, fools, and mystics, who were more interested in what is than in why it is. So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic, because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

John Steinbeck

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J.K. Rowling

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much

Diana Wynne Jones

Don't be too optimistic. The light at the end of the tunnel may be another train.

Source Unknown

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Kurt Vonnegut

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

Jorge Luis Borges

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

Ram Dass

The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.

Liev Schreiber

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.

George Saunders