"Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next."

“There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.”

“My only relief is to sleep. When I'm sleeping, I'm not sad, I'm not angry, I'm not lonely, I'm nothing.”

Source : Jillian Medoff (1997). “Hunger Point: A Novel”, Harpercollins

“The Morganville in her wanted to tell people to go home and be safe, but she knew that was verging on crazy. The world these laughing people lived in was a very different place. She was in a very different place.”

“If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.”

“You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress will do every thing they can to assist you in this wise intention...”

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

“Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if youve truly lived through it.”

Source : "Losing Your Job And Learning What You’re Made Of" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

“In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.”