I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill? East Of Eden

Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. Dombey and Son

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Never Give In!

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. Nicholas Nickleby