"Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other."

“With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him.”

Source : S J Watson (2011). “Before I Go To Sleep”, p.351, Random House

“The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.”

“The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.”

Source : John Boyle O'Reilly, Liam Barry (1994). “Selected poems, speeches, dedications and letters of John Boyle O'Reilly, 1844-1890”

“I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower To carry again to you.”

“If we can forgive what’s been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we’ve done to others . . . If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.”

“It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat”

“Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.”

Source : Hugh MacLennan (1975). “The watch that ends the night: a novel”, Macmillan of Canada, 1975

“If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.”