"Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward."

“I think I feel the most comfortable being insane.”

“Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.”

Source : John Hay (1916). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Hay: Including Many Poems Now First Collected”

“You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.”

“Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.”

“I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.”

“Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.”

Source : William J. Bennett (1995). “Moral Compass: Stories for a Life's Journey”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

“He was going to take a dive into this lake. He just didn’t know it. Cerise rose, finding footing in the soft mud. The water came up to just below her breasts and her wet shirt stuck to her body. William’s gaze snagged on her chest. Yep, keep looking, Lord Bill. Keeeeeep looking.”

“I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.”