"Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior."
- John Newton
"Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic aloneness, and endow us with the tools to understand our humanness. R..."
- Kilroy J. Oldster
"Frightfully pale and perpetually odd"
- Sue Perkins
"We had come from lecture halls, school desks and factory workbenches, and over the brief weeks of training, we had bonded together into one large and enthusiastic group. Grown up in an age of security..."
- Ernst Jünger
"In a curious failure of comprehension, I looked alertly about me for possible targets for all this artillery fire, not, apparently, realizing that it was actually ourselves that the enemy gunners were..."
"Anyone who has lived a full life has something fascinating to share with the world."
- Auliq Ice
"We thought speaking in English meant you were more intelligent. We were wrong of course. It does not matter what language you choose, the important thing is the words you use to express yourself."
- Malala Yousafzai
"To now is to love, to see is a joy, but to lose is hurtful."
- Rubye Armorer
"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism"
- Alexander Hamilton
"I dreamed of going to the top of Mount Elum like Alexander the Great to touch Jupiter and even beyond the valley. But, as I watched my brother running across the roof, flying their kites and skillfull..."