“…Bad leaders are known to destroy one, more or even all of the foundations of their people’s way of life…”

“I was just kidding, shuck-face,” Minho said. “Let’s all go over there. She could have an army of psycho girl ninjas hiding in that shack of hers.””Psycho girl ninjas?” Newt repeated, his voice showing he was surprised, if not annoyed, by Minho’s additude.”

“God gave laws to His people to bless them, not to burden them. Every rule either elevates the quality of human life or restores one’s relationship with God after a breach. He makes no extraneous demands and He is never capricious.”

“Get your knowledge fast, apply faster”

“…uncrossing is an act of faith, because you trust in the universe, or whatever it is that you trust in, to fill the space you’re creating with whatever it is that you really need.”

“Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back at you.”

“The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we carry, we may glimpse something that seems of interest. But when we bring it out and examine it more closely it usually proves to be only trash whose glitter had caught our attention. Imagination is at once the source of all hope and inspiration but also of frustration. To forget this is to court despair.”

“People are given full freedom of decision-makingSome use it for good and be goodSome use it for evil, and be evilWhen those who use evil,sword of destiny swingingthrough their lives,They experience greater pain and sufferingthan those to whom they gave itSlobodan Boban Manic”

“I’ve no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn’t have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he’s handsome Nelly but because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire.”

“This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America”

“If your understanding lacks the ability to explain what you understand to people of all ages, then you have not really understood.”

“A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.”

“Mind led bodyto the edge of the precipice.They stared in desireat the naked abyss.If you love me, said mind,take that step into silence.If you love me, said body,turn and exist.”

“You have made some notes, read some writing books, and done some research. Mostly what you’ve done is talk about writing a book. An idea for a book is not a book; it is a waste of time. There is no singular thing that makes someone a writer, but there is one thing that makes someone a joke–talking about writing a book without doing any work.”