"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."

“Know with certainty that there is a God, and that there exists a world beyond this one - the world of souls.”

“Her affection for everything she could love increased.”

“Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic.”

Source : E. F. Benson (2015). “The Collected Works of E. F. Benson (Illustrated): Dodo Trilogy, Queen Lucia, Miss Mapp, David Blaize, The Room in The Tower, Paying Guests, The Relentless City, The Angel of Pain, The Rubicon and more”, p.136, e-artnow

“I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.”

Source : Joseph Warren Stilwell (2003). “The Stilwell papers”

“We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.”

“Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those who dont read much cannot get better at it.”

Source : Jim Trelease (2013). “The Read-Aloud Handbook: Seventh Edition”, p.29, Penguin

“Stalin’s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.”

Source : John Lewis Gaddis (2006). “The Cold War: A New History”, p.13, Penguin

“You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt.”

Source : "How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2014.