"At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security."

“I am not nostalgic for the past.”

“Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.”

“The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the remains of the Long Parliament, may have been an unpractical body, so far as the task of administration in troublous times was concerned. But it seems quite possible that the wealth of contumely and scorn which has been poured upon it was, originally, due quite as much to the fierce anger of vested interests against outspoken criticism, as to any real vagueness or want of practical wisdom in the plans of the House itself.”

Source : "A Short History Of The English Law" by Edward Jenks.Fiirst edition, ch. XII, Civil Procedure In The Middle Ages, p. 178, 1912.

“Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.”

“Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.”

Source : " Osborne has the potential to leave Labour floundering" by Jonathan Freedland, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2008.

“I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.”

Source : "6 Photographers On What It Means To Be Close Enough". Interview with Kate Bubacz, www.buzzfeed.com.

“Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.”

“Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.”

Source : Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan