It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on.

A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.

Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.

Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?

And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.

The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

Thanks liver... you are a champ!

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

Sheep. Looting. Cousins." Lucien cursed and got out of bed.

Never pass by a chance to shut up.

The one who has wisdom in his head and heart does not need to shout at others.