"O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come."

“If we were to tell you to deliberately spend ten minutes every day envisaging yourself being very ill, you'd quite rightly refuse to do it. Most people know that's a bad idea - yet those same people may spend time every day worrying about their health.”

“That he loved her was his life’s greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare.”

Source : Rosalind Miles (2007). “The Child of the Holy Grail: The Third of the Guenevere Novels”, p.56, Crown

“The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.”

Source : "Party animal". www.theguardian.com. April 25, 1999.

“And there is no difference, in principle - but only in degree - between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less than the latter, denies a man's ownership of himself and the products of his labor; and asserts that other men may own him, and dispose of him and his property, for their uses, and at their pleasure.”

“Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.”

“This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.”

Source : George F. Will (1999). “The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

“We've been beaten before but never defeated. Tonight we were defeated.”

“Hope is fragile and needs to be tended and renewed.”