What else is there to do in this world but love other people?

People suffer all over the world, every day. But people triumph all over the world every day, too.

In just a few minutes, my son will have completed his first trip around the sun.

Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.

there won't be any pain, he promised. Only an eternity together. Come back to me. (Stanton, book #5)

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.

For very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary...

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.’ (Talon)