And we pray, and we pray and we pray and we pray.Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday…

Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work.

...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.

A chief cause of worry and unhappiness in life is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.

He was in my nose, my mouth, on my skin, inside my cells, deep in the marrow of my bones. Just then, he was everything to me.

I regret that I've been so busy with clinical work that I haven't been able to spend much time on experiments and outcome studies.

I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.

Magnus shrugged. "He also made inappropriate amorous advances to a startled grandmotherly sort selling flowers, an Irish wolfhound, and innocent hat stand in a dwelling he broke into, and myself.

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.

I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.