"I think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out of what you're doing."

“Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other.”

“A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.”

“The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.”

“Laughter is an important part of healthy living.”

“We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.”

“I think anything can be forced to converge. The problem is that products are about tradeoffs, and you begin to make tradeoffs to the point where what you have left at the end of the day doesn't please anyone. You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.”

“evidence without ideas is more valuable than ideas without evidence.”

Source : E.C.R. Lorac (2015). “Murder by Matchlight”, p.25, Courier Dover Publications

“In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, "just to keep the people frightened."”