"One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams."

“Be careful whom you choose to hate. The small and the vulnerable own a protection great enough, if you could but see it, to melt you into jelly. Beware those who reside beneath the shadow of the Wings.”

Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.36, Atlantic Monthly Press

“I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.”

“I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead”

“I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.”

“Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN Security Council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy.”

Source : "Iran nuclear crisis sent to security council" by Ewen MacAskill, Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2006.

“But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.”

“But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.”

“I usually don't get this pretty at 3 o'clock.”