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“The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care? Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.”
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“There's another way to edit the sentence, which is to add a comma before the second 'which.' The survivor is struggling toward 'some resolution,' not a specific resolution that the mind may never find. The final clause is an appended thought, not a conclusion of the previous clause: 'Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor's mind toward some resolution, which it may never find.'”
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“This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.”
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“I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and I think that the quality of the novel I write will derive precisely from the peculiarity or aloneness, if you will, of the experience I write from.”
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“In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.”
Source : "Seventy Faces: Articles of Faith". Book by Norman Lamm, 2002.
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“I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.”
Source : "Fox Business Network's Lou Dobbs Says Candy Crowley 'Took Over' Debate (Q&A)". Interview with Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 21, 2012. 
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“I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!”
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“You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.”
Source : FaceBook post by Alexander McCall Smith from Jul 15, 2011
