“Pain — physical, emotional, and otherwise — is the shadow cast by everything you want out of life, the alternative to the result you were hoping for, and the inevitable creator of strength. From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before. Pain is there…”— Jim Butcher, amazon.com
“Whether you are trying to teach each other a sport like pool, tennis or hockey, it is quite likely that you need to hold that person at a very close proximity. You secretly look at each other’s faces from the corner of the eyes. There is a strong urge to kiss or take things further.”— Mag For Women, magforwomen.com
“If you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.”— Amit Ray, amazon.com
“Presently a serpent sought them out privately, and came to them walking upright, which was the way of serpents in those days. The serpent said the forbidden fruit would store their vacant minds with knowledge. So they ate it, which was quite natural, for man is so made that he eagerly wants to know;…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.”— Louis L’Amour, books.google.com
“Believe me: It is no teaching and no instruction that I give you. On what basis should I presume to teach you? I give you news of the way of this man, but not of your own way. My path is not your path, therefore I cannot teach you. The way is within us, but not in Gods, nor in teachings, nor in laws…”— Carl Jung, amazon.com