"The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change."

“TNC was once limited by the resources it could directly marshal to buy land. But teaching people a new idea is incredibly more scalable.”

“Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.”

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”

Source : Edith Wharton (2002). “Artemis to Actaeon and More: Selected Verse”, p.16, Wildside Press LLC

“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”

Source : "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

“I do like choral music a lot, the voice is a pretty strong instrument - out of all the instruments, it's the most intimate. There's nothing you can do about it, it just feels so good when you hear a bunch of voices sing together.”

“The body image took a real battering. I had really not taken on board how I would feel dressed in a flimsy dress in front of millions of people.”

“I want to be a major force.”