[A] smile is hovering about her lips, as if some playful speech were awaiting the right hearer. – George Eliot, “Another Love-Scene,” The Mill on the Floss, 1860
I am a Westerner. Were not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially its like a mirror, saying, hey, cant you see whats here in your own religion, what are you, stupid? – Matthew Fox
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton