"I never did anything with the early recordings I made, I felt they weren't worthy."

“I never count countries. Travel is not a contest.”

“Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release”

“Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.”

“I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ...make it a better place for this and future generations.”

“For ever so our thoughtful hearts repeatOn fields of triumph dirges of defeat;And still we turn on gala-days to treadAmong the rustling memories of the dead.”

“Niall Quinn is a creep. The man's an idiot, a Mother Theresa.”

“In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.”

Source : John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.80, Anza Publishing

“Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.”

Source : Jean M. Auel (2013). “The Earth's Children Series 6-Book Bundle: The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The Plains of Passage, The Shelters of Stone, The Land of Painted Caves”, p.1963, Bantam