Her smile could wash away a thousand doubts as soon as light up a room.

Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas and pursue our abstract imaginings.

Creativity and ideas fired between every synapse underneath my skin and I felt radiant from the inside out.

When I was young I wanted so much to be like her. What a blessing are those moments when there is nothing to worry about, no thought of trouble or grief in the world.

I could feel their grief as if it were a beast holding us down.

Maybe attraction was aligned in heaven before our birth because there was no other way to explain my feelings. There were millions of boys on the earth. Why did it feel so strong?

If we were rational creatures we would never get out of bed or live or love.

I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.

Don't you find it strange that your mother would leave you?' Becky said. 'I can't imagine my other leaving me.'I'd never thought of it like that before. 'I don't think she knew what else to do.

But sometimes I wanted to feel like a child, to know that he would stand in front of me while waves crashed towards us or arrows come at us.

Standing there, that day, I felt like Sally was being torn from my skin and there was no way I could ever fly free, without her right beside me.

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

The first gift is Strength. May you remember to call upon it whenever you need it.

It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium.

Sun and snow is an Angel’s glow, but storm and rain? That’s a Demon’s bane.

If Hitler hadn't turned against their beloved Stalin, liberals would have stuck by him, too.

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

If people perceive themselves as having very little opportunities to be fulfilled, then it cheapens their life and outlook. The solution is to reverse it; make sure they know opportunities abound.

Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.