"We need to transmute the lead of personality into the gold of the Spirit. This work is only possible in the laboratory of the Alchemist."

“You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.”

Source : Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.7, Dial Press

“The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.”

“By natural means, as the Lord always operates for the accomplishment of his purposes, means so simple that the thoughtless and unbelieving do not see the manifestation of his power, he brought the Puritans from the old world to New England, the Dutch to New York, the English Cavaliers to Virginia and the French to New Orleans, a combination of races which, paradoxical as it may appear, was just calculated to give us the composite America who made the United States of America what it is, the greatest nation of the world today.”

“But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.”

“Just to be is holy, just to live is a gift.”

“We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.”

Source : "The view from Hastings" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

“There are lots of ways to bring joy, happiness, peace, laughter, hope and comfort into your life, and they cost absolutely nothing.”

Source : "31 Free Ways To Find Happiness" by Sandra Magsamen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2009.

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”