"Do not forsake prayer, for just as the body becomes weak when it is deprived of food, so also the soul when it is deprived of prayer draws nigh to weakness and noetic death."

“Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.”

“A person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not because it counts more than the previous ones but because once they are included in a life, events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather, corresponds to an inner architecture.”

Source : Italo Calvino (1986). “Mr. Palomar”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“The ball is round, make sure you pass it around”

“In death a hero, as in life a friend!”

“It's important that you work on things that you care about and do a good job and not be too worried about consequences. Don't be afraid to get involved.”

“Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed.”

“We really have dinosaurs today, without any question. You just need the right weather conditions, as I see it, to get huge creatures. And in the ocean, of course, we have huge creatures.... this is where the plesiosauruses seem to be today, and perhaps also this fire breathing dragon is still down there - very rare, but occasionally there.”

“The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal.”