"Have you ever had something happen to you that there was simply no explanation for? That you can't chalk up to a coincidence, or an accident, or even fate?"

“The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.122, Pan Macmillan

“Is the peace of God in the soul disturbed by things down here? No, never! If waters break in stormy currents against a rock, the rock is unmoved; it is only the waters that are disturbed.”

“For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.”

“Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.”

“You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.”

“Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat genus.]”

“No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example.”

“Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.”