Memories were like tomb paintings, thought the Major, the colors still vivid no matter how many layers of mud and sand time deposited. Scrape at them and they come up all red and blazing.

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.

The human race is all the same when it comes to romantic relations, ' said the Major. 'A startling absence of impulse control combined with complete myopia.

...I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

You Anglo-Saxons have largely broken away from such dependence on family. Each generation feels perfectly free to act alone and you are not afraid.

I miss being a student, " said Abdul Wahid. "I miss the passionate discussions with my friends, and most of all the hours among the books.

Look, the truth belongs to the guy who's best at sticking to his story, ' said Ferguson.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.

The world is on fire with hate- everyone is blaming one another saying that religion is responsible for it!In all honesty, hate has no fate. But greed does it needs money, its faith.

What we love we shall grow to resemble.

Dunkirk has fallen... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You have not disappointed me.

An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.

Don’t be fooled. The battle between Iran and ISIS doesn’t turn Iran into a friend of America.

The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.

So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.