"I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life."

-- Alan Bennett

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“Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray.”
“Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.”

Source : Christine Feehan (2005). “Night Game”, p.296, Penguin
“I'm very affected by what I watch and read.”
“I am most proud about the science I've done with my own two hands because I have always thought that even if your life path takes you into a leadership position outside the area you were known for, your legitimacy remains in that first field.”
“Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.”

Source : Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.492, Simon and Schuster
“Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.”
“Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you must do what you do for the good of others.”
“Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry -- and the world laughs harder.”

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