"Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you."

“Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be done." What, then, does a man mean by saying, Science displaces religion, when in this deep sense science itself springs from religion?”

“You can't be anything but who you are. I wouldn't love you the same if you stopped being you. How do I change enough to accept that ruthless streak in you.”

Source : Christine Feehan (2012). “Christine Feehan's Drake Sisters Series: Five Novels and a Novella”, p.510, Penguin

“Commonsense lets us down, because commonsense evolved in a world where nothing moves very fast, and nothing is very small or very large; the mundane world of the familiar.”

“Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is important that African countries wake up and pool whatever resources they have and jointly deal elements pulling our continent down a death blow.”

Source : "Unity will end crises, Membe tells Africa" by Austin Beyadi, The Guardian, March 28, 2008.

“I've always thought that pressure is trying to feed your family, trying to make a mortgage. We play a game...And this is an amazing game.”

“The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.”

“To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.”

“I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.”