Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her position. From theirs, it might be a line between mercy and cruelty, consideration and callousness.

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.

Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

People forget how vulnerable they are despite their shirts and shoes and briefcases, how this hungry and cruel world could strip them, put them in the same position as my beggars.

How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness

The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable reality, she thought, calling it peace and quiet.

Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus

the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair

School friends rarely remembered, hardly forgotten...!!

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

Explore the infinite possibilities in existence.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

This is the Law of the Yukon that only the strong shall thrive That surely the weak shall perish and only the fit survive.

I know many fine feathered friends But their friendliness depends on how you do They know many sure fired ways, To find out the one who pays And how you do

As you warm to the ideas expressed in Total Recall, you find yourself reaching for your digital camera to record the moment just gone by.

The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

You can say that this is just what aerospace medicine is all about - to save the lives of the men who climb to the high reaches above the Earth and beyond this planet.

The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.