You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But they are things that, well, you just have to see and feel. p.147

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

I will follow you to the ends of the world.

I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!

She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.

Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.

A society has no chance of success if it's women are uneducated.

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel.

She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling waylaid, out of balance. How she could ever cope with his permanent absence?

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?

Life is full of beauty, when we focus on the bliss of being.

There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.

We want our leaders to be fair dinkum, as much among us as above us.

I enrich myself by telling others to give to me so they can bribe God to get what they want.

"The Lucky One" is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true.

I love having debates with people when they are debates but some people, you just can't. Some people shouldn't be given the oxygen.

I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger.