I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in some way, there.It's the magic of fiction: you take the words and you build them into worlds.

Neil Gaiman

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

Arnold J. Toynbee

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Joseph Addison

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are shaggy dog stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.

W. H. Auden

There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.

Fergie

In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she did.

Jodi Picoult

Kecantikan yang abadi terletak pada keelokan adab dan ketinggian ilmu seseorang. Bukan terletak pada wajah dan pakaiannya

Hamka

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

Napoleon Hill

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Mary Daly

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

Marston Bates

I can, therefore I am.

Simone Weil