"He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool forever."

“How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?”

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”

Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.25, Scholastic Inc.

“Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so...”

“I came home from Portugal convinced that nothing is so important as making known what the Mother of God asked in those apparitions of 1917 . . . The future of our civilization, our liberties, our very existence may depend upon the acceptance of her commands.”

Source : William Thomas Walsh (1947). “Our Lady of Fátima”

“What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.”

“Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.”

Source : "The Holocaust Industry". Book by Norman Finkelstein, www.theguardian.com. 2000.

“A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.”

“It took a lot of work to be perfect.”