Stephen Mak

“He went to India with his capital, and there, according to a wild legend in our family, he was once seen riding on an elephant, in company with a Baboon; but I think it must have been a Baboo—or a Begum. Anyhow, from India tidings of his death reached home, within ten years. How they affected my aunt, nobody knew; for immediately upon the separation, she took her maiden name again, bought a cottage in a hamlet on the sea-coast a long way off, established herself there as a single woman with one servant, and was understood to live secluded,”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“The truth is, you need your fear, for obvious reasons of basic survival.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa