Nothing doing. I've no doubt you think I should look noble as a sacrifice. But I've never wanted to look noble, and I won't be made to. -- Neville Fletcher

Don't worry. Chivalry has practically no appeal for me whatsoever. -- Neville Fletcher

She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.

She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn’t time for anything else.

Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression.

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.

A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.