"I bear a burden that might well try Men that do all by rule, And what can I That am a wandering-witted fool But pray to God that He ease My great responsibilities?"

“The Amorites founded Jerusalem, they formed the Nordic weft in later Galilee, that is, in the "pagan region" whence some day Jesus was to come.”

“Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions.”

Source : Mary Collyer (1749). “Felicia to Charlotte: Being Letters from a Young Lady in the Country, to Her Friend in Town”, p.35

“Each precious moment of your life in which you are frozen with fear is a moment when you are not being all you can be. In the end, that hurts more than anything. Succeeding or failing does not determine if we are surviving or living. Rather it is in our ability to reach beyond our present self-imposed definition of who we are, and to risk becoming more, that we are able to feel fully alive.”

Source : Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living: Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret”, p.98, Penguin

“If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.”

“Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.”

“I guess when your heart gets broken, you sort of start to see the cracks in everything.”

“I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they'll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident.”

“A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some caution”