"Swords and knives make me feel vulnerable."

“We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.”

“Finally I got to carbon, and as you all know, in the case of carbon the reaction works out beautifully. One goes through six reactions, and at the end one comes back to carbon. In the process one has made four hydrogen atoms into one of helium. The theory, of course, was not made on the railway train from Washington to Ithaca ... It didn't take very long, it took about six weeks, but not even the Trans-Siberian railroad [has] taken that long for its journey.”

“I’m not raising my kids to survive the world. I’m raising them to change it.”

“After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.”

Source : Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.40, Wakefield Press

“I’m not sure I’ll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should’ve said.”

“Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?”

“What do you think it is to be normal?' Why in the world would you want to be?' she says. I don't know. I guess that's the problem.' I don't think normal is that great.' But so many people choose it,' I reply. I don't think that's it at all. I think most everyone is normal and some of us, for whatever reason, choose to reject that and wear ruby red slippers or old black hats.' Well, why do we choose the hard road?”

Source : Patrick Jones (2007). “Nailed”, p.87, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

“Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.”