Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!

With my 10 fingers and toes and perhaps 80 years of life, the enormity of time threatens the gaskets of my mind.

Chris Hadfield

Someone has to do it. It's all very well calling for eye of newt, but do you mean Common, Spotted or Great Crested? Which eye, anyway? Will tapioca do just as well? If we substitute egg white will the spell a) work b) fail or c) melt the bottom out of the cauldron? Goodie Whemper's curiosity about such things was huge and insatiable*.* Nearly insatiable. It was probably satiated in her last flight to test whether a broomstick could survive having its bristles pulled out one by one in mid-air. According to the small black raven she had trained as a flight recorder, the answer was almost certainly no.

Terry Pratchett

You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?

Yasmina Khadra

I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love.

John Green

The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage.

Smiley Blanton

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

G. K. Chesterton

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Chinese Proverb

Definition of failure - wishful sinking!

Stephen Richards

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.

Jason Isaacs

If a man hasn't discovered something that he would die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.

Juliet Marillier