"Who are you to end a war? I am here to tell you - who are you not to?"

“...Other countries are way ahead of ours in nutrition.”

“I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to seek, or to supply: an empathy that rearticulates more clearly what it's shown.”

Source : Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.16, Granta Books

“All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it.”

Source : John Prebble (1956). “Disaster at Dundee”

“Surrounded yourself with brilliant people. You can't HELP but grow when that happens.”

“The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique.”

“You think I'm gonna feel better eatin' a carrot? Get a grip. There's two idiots out there trying to kill me, and you think I'm gonna waste my last breath on a vegetable? (Lula)”

“A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.”

Source : Mary Balogh (2003). “A Summer to Remember”, p.67, Dell

“A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.”