"It's very important that your parents have careers of their own. When the kid becomes the breadwinner of the household, that's when you have problems."

“The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realized it, he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers.”

“Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books”

“It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.”

“Which meant I got left with Quinn yet again. Given the time he was taking to make his decision, I wasn't exactly happy about that. I mean, putting me with him was like flashing chocolate my way then telling me I couldn't have it. It was just plain mean.”

Source : Keri Arthur (2007). “Kissing Sin: A Riley Jenson Guardian Novel”, p.197, Dell

“I hate to write and spend months just waiting for the film to get financed. Then when you start preparing the film and you shoot it, you've already forgotten why you wanted to make the film in the first place. I like to have some kind of coherent energy that takes you through writing, preparing, shooting.”

“How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.”

Source : Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms (1971). “Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, 1853-1896”

“The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.”

“Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential, you realize you can also do without something else, then without many other things.”