"Neural science, which is the study of the brain, tells us that we have up to one billion brain cells with thousands of branches that communicate with each other much like a complex highway system. The more we attend to something, or the more we engage in certain behaviors, the more those particular cells communicate and the pathways between them deepen. This is how our values, our beliefs, and our motivations are actually formed."

“As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.”

“When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.”

Source : "The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna". Book by Mahendranath Gupta, p. 465, 1942.

“I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.”

“Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And, as in any conversation, it helps to listen with an open mind, so you can be led somewhere unexpected. The more you leave assumptions at home, I've found, the better you can hear whatever it is that a destination is trying to say to you.”

Source : "10 things every traveler should do" by Pico Iyer, www.cnn.com. June 25, 2009.

“If you don't live it, you don't believe it.”

“So, just for one more merry day To the great Tree the leaflets clung, Frolicked and danced and had their way, Upon the autumn breezes swung.”

Source : Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, “How The Leaves Came Down”

“The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.”

Source : Daniel Berrigan (1988). “Daniel Berrigan: poetry, drama, prose”

“Americans just don't understand dry wit.”