"There's nobody on a normal income who can afford to live anywhere centrally, so everything becomes displaced and decentralized. The city [of London] becomes incongruent. It doesn't have any coherence anymore."

“I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.”

Source : "The Wisdom of Patti Smith" by Victoria Dawson Hoff, www.elle.com. December 30, 2013.

“I have realized that nothing else matters besides this: Am I doing everything God has put me on this earth to do?”

“One of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home.”

Source : "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 19, 2012.

“I have to ask myself how I can possibly expect to know Jesus as he would want to be known if my life remains unscathed by trouble and grief. How can I hope to grasp anything of God's heart for this broken planet if I never weep because its brokenness touches me and breaks my heart? How can I reflect his image if I never share in his sufferings? And how will any of us ever learn to treasure his hesed and grace if we never experience phases where these blessings seem absent?”

“Life is too short not to experiment.”

“We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.”

“I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.”

“Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.”