"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."

“It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take my life." "This cancer can't defeat me." "No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny."”

“I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.”

“I've never loved spending time on the machines at the gym. But I have discovered an exercise regimen I can dedicate myself to: yoga. It's changed my body.”

“Lies About Love We are all liars, because The truth of yesterday becomes a lie tomorrow, Whereas letters are fixed, and we live by the letter of truth. The love I feel for my friend, this year, is different from the love I felt last year. If it were not so, it would be a lie. Yet we reiterate love! love! love! as if it were a coin with fixed value instead of a flower that dies, and opens a different bud.”

“I think my mom and dad knew from the very beginning that I was destined to go into public service.”

“The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.”

Source : William Falconer (2012). “Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)”, p.130, BoD – Books on Demand

“Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.”

“Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.1400, Head of Zeus Ltd