We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.

...the wrath of God pales beside that of man.

Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time.

Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?

...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516

I don't think traveling back in time on an empty stomach is a good idea.