"I started using drugs when I was thirteen. By twenty-one, I was shooting up coke and heroin. In my early twenties, I unconsciously used asana to make the "getter" inside me stronger. Sure, I got a hit of the yoga high - serenity at the end of class - but how sustainable is that if you're holding grudges against yourself or others?"

“The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.”

“Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'”

“Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.”

“Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.”

“Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.”

Source : George Edward Woodberry (1914). “Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913”

“We're all in full-time Christian service. We have different disguises, but the same vocation; to be out and out lovers and servants of the Lord Jesus Christ... no dichotomy exists between ministry and lifestyle.”

“All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller ...”, p.247

“In a knowledge-driven economy, talk is real work.”

Source : Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak (2013). “Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know”, p.90, Harvard Business Press