"I don't see myself as being injured by a landmine or the Taliban; I was injured by ignorance and hatred. When people do these things, they want to create more hatred. Fight it with love and education."

“Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.”

Source : Katherine Neville (2015). “The Eight”, p.135, Open Road Media

“By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly spend this precious currency.”

“If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].”

“But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick further in.”

“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.”

“Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.”

Source : Paolo Bacigalupi (2008). “Pump Six and Other Stories”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

“I had no ambition to become an actor at all.”

“I have learned to imagine an invisible sign around each person’s neck that says ‘Make me feel important,”