Best Quotes (page 188)
![Mother Teresa quote: "The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because..."](/pic/236928/600x316/quotation-mother-teresa-the-person-who-gives-with-a-smile-is-the-best.jpg)
The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophical novelist were traffic cops, at best. They might direct you through a busy intersection, but they wouldn't follow you home and park your car.
Tom Robbins
![Charles Dickens quote: "The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever..."](/pic/236578/600x316/quotation-charles-dickens-the-new-testament-is-the-very-best-book-that.jpg)
The best remedy for those who are frightened, lovely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity.
Anne Frank
At best he read popular science magazines like the Scientific American he had now, to keep himself up-to-date, in layman's terms, with physics generally. But even then his concentration was marred, for a lifetime's habit made him inconveniently watchful for his own name. He saw it as if in bold. It could leap out at him from an unread double page of small print, and sometimes he could sense it coming before the page turn.
Ian Mcewan