"That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish."

“There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian dilemmas that confront the average citizen in other areas of life ... the stakes in this realm could not be higher. For chances are that at some point along the line you will hold in your hands another person's heart. There is no greater responsibility on the planet. However you contend with this fragile organ, which pounds or seizes in accordance with your caprice, will take your full measure.”

“Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.”

Source : Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.133, Spiegel & Grau

“I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'”

Source : "Felicity Huffman is sitting pretty" by William Keck, usatoday30.usatoday.com. November 21, 2005.

“Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.”

“The Civil Rights Commission should never have been brought into existence. It has been most prejudiced in its viewpoint, and has fomented trouble and racial disturbance since its inception. It should be abolished, not extended.”

“Mendanbar took a deep breath. You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me. This wasn't coming out at all the way he had wanted it to, but it was too late to stop now. He hurried on, As Queen of the Enchanted Forest, if you think you would like that. I would.”

“For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home”

“Always count your blessings. Be thankful you are able to be out on a beautiful course. Most people in the world don't have that opportunity.”