for I determined that if Death came he should find me ready

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

We learn from failure, not from success!

Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.

Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?

She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.

It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.

There is nothing like been consumed by the blazing fire of untold story.

Every story needs to be worth telling.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Hell no. When I die I want to be sick.

Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.

If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form a proper queue?

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone,” I said diplomatically. Unless that person turns your world upside down and makes you lose all self-control.

What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Who knows what the tide could bring.