"The Cabal mocks the natural order. For its minions, death is just a pause between duties."

“one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.”

“I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.”

“Why be timid? Death is coming.”

“I say further that for this great legislative body to ignore the Constitution and the fundamental concepts of our governmental system is to act in a manner which could ultimately destroy the freedom of all American citizens, including the freedoms of the very persons whose feelings and whose liberties are the major subject of this legislation.”

“When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in appearance. Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst.”

“There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!”

Source : Anne Frank, Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (Netherlands) (1989). “The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition”, Viking Pr

“We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so much ability as attitude. You master mathematics if you are willing to try.”

“What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.”

Source : Joseph Hall (1837). “Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.11