It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

Hilary Mantel

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

Thomas Wolfe

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Jean de La Fontaine

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Pablo Neruda

Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.

Marie Lu

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Anne Bradstreet