In a foreign country and with a foreign species of life, one should take measures to find out whether things will be keeping their value when dead... "For the sake of your own eyes and heart, shoot not the iguana."
- Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa
I learned what every dreaming child needs to know- that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it...
- Beryl Markham, West With The Night
You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.
- Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter
That each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
- Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven
But now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean, whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer from them, all too soon they bleed into was, just like watery ink on paper.
- Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Only Africans were capable of making a difference in Africa. All of the others, donors and volunteers and banks, however idealistic, were simply agents of subversion.
- Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari
"Would you tell me please which way I have to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
- Lewis Caroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy.
- John Steinbeck, East of Eden
But there is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
- Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
oh, I can go on and on! I haven't even started in my favorite Paul Coelho quotes yet!
