"In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin."

“You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.”

“You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.”

“But what if we took it one step further and made an effort to actually transform our pain into something beautiful? What if we went full out and made an effort to transform other people’s pain into something beautiful?”

“No dish changes quite so much from season to season as soup. Summer's soups come chilled, in pastel colors strewn with herbs. If hot they are sheer insubstantial broths afloat with seafood. In winter they turn steaming and thick to serve with slabs of rustic, crusty bread.”

“You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.”

Source : John Knowles (1969). “A separate peace”, Bantam Books, 1966

“It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church.”

“Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.”

“The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty.”