A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.

Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you - then someone else.

Steal not this book for fear of shameFor on it is the owners nameAnd when you die the Lord will sayWhere is the book you stole awayAnd when you say you do not knowThe Lord will say go down below.

Never on painter's canvas livesThe charm of his fancy's dream.

If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.

(...) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale.

I will survive: if the hell rejects me, there is always the paradise.

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

He wasn’t the best coder or the most introspective human being, and you must know that it takes the best coder and the most human human to produce the best droid in this age. (Douglas Parsley

The way I play guitar is very, very hard and I bloody myself incredibly without the tape. And the nails are my picks.

Nature utters her voice in lessons of heavenly wisdom and eternal truth.

Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.

Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.

The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!

A friend is one with whom you are comfortable, to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed, and for whom you are grateful.