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“Writing a story bends time and warps reality. It gives the writer prior knowledge in the reader's future...”
― RO Smit

“The recent recognition that the genetic code possesses a unique capacity to resist errors caused by mutation imparts the biochemical intelligent design argument with an entirely new level of credibility. Like a giant SOS shaped with letters ablaze, the optimal nature of the genetic code signals that an Intelligent Agent used those rules to start and sustain life.”
― Fazale Rana, The Cell's Design (Reasons to Believe): How Chemistry Reveals the Creator's Artistry

“Thank you for the time we shared, for the love you gave, for the wisdom you spread. I will always treasure the lessons you taught me. I will carry them with me all the days of my life. I am so proud to be your child.
-From A Prayer When a Parent Dies”
― Naomi Levy, Talking to God: Personal Prayers for Times of Joy, Sadness, Struggle, and Celebration

“A Prayer for Daily Insight
Open my eyes, God. Help me to perceive what I have ignored, to uncover what I have forgotten, to find what I have been searching for. Remind me that I don't have to journey far to discover something new, for miracles surround me, blessings and holiness abound. And You are near.
Amen.”
― Naomi Levy, Talking to God: Personal Prayers for Times of Joy, Sadness, Struggle, and Celebration

“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Shame is an odd emotion. It clings to things over which we have no control, like a scent.”
― Sarah Ruhl, Smile: The Story of a Face

“International ships are left to defend themselves as best they can, constrained by international rules that the pirates care nothing for, as politicians in the West apply liberalist attitudes to peoples whose outlook is profoundly illiberal and mediaeval. If history can be seen as regressing, the issue of piracy in the twenty-first century is surely the finest example.”
― Mark Felton, 21st Century Courage: Stirring Stories of Modern British Heroes

“This is what we must teach our children, to think of others more than they think of themselves, for it is in this way they will find the most noble satisfaction of all.”
― Kladstrup Don Kladstrup, Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure

“No matter what job you get,' he told my mother, 'you can make a good one out of it”
― John McCain, Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir

“I have always believed that a human being could withstand almost anything if he were just allowed to read.”
― George Harsh, Lonesome Road

“Typically, he found some value in his troublemaking and in the punishment he earned for it. "You get to know people that you don't ordinarily know if you're one of the good boys. And sometimes the world's not always made up of all the good boys either, not by a long shot," he said.”
― John McCain, Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir

“What do you want to be when you grow up?"

"Kind," said the boy.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

“That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“There's only one thing, in my opinion, in which I'm an expert - and that's in being myself: Hykie Berg”
― Hykie Berg, Hykie Berg: My storie van hoop

“Learning to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong”
― Rick Atkinson, The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“Before we even understand what repentance is, we’re instructed to name, out loud, the harm that we have caused.”
― Danya Ruttenberg, On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

“it is far from easy to keep living where God is. Therefore God gives you people to help to hold you in that place and call you back to it every time you wander off."17”
― Danya Ruttenberg, Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Some stories begin at the beginning and others begin at the end, but all the best stories begin in a library.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

“Sometimes just to say your own truth out loud is enough to find others like you.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

“If we’re lucky, we get to be elders, faces lined with age, voices thick with the wisdom of years, heads stuffed with memories of art we’ve seen, places we’ve been, people we’ve loved.”
― Katy Kelleher, The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption

“Large quantities of fine graphite were also used to build the chain-reaction piles at the Los Alamos atomic weapons programme and within 48 hours of the capture of the island's capital, and while the opposing forces were still fighting, arrangements were made to ship 8,000 tons of graphite from Madagascar to the USA and UK.
Little can the Japanese have realized that their failure to capture Madagascar before the Allies could intervene in 1942 would lead to the cataclysmic events at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 which brought the Second World War to such a violent and dramatic conclusion.”
― John Grehan, Churchill's Secret Invasion: Britains First Large Scale Combined Offensive 1942

“The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you.”
― Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't