"As a rule, ladies of the Royal Family wear light coloured clothes because such colours are more discernible against a great crowd."

“There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.”

“Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish.”

Source : Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

“I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.”

“No matter how long we have been walking with Jesus, we need to hear again, do not love the world.”

“I don't understand racism. We are all the same and I have the perfect hypothesis to prove it. I play to all those countries and they cry in all the same places in my show. They laugh in the same places. They become hysterical in the same places. They faint in the same places and that's the perfect hypothesis. There is a commonality that we are all the same.”

“Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. When you sustain that kind of affront, and sustain it and sustain it and sustain it, something happens to you. You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does not like to see anything that comes in response, and accuses one of anger as if it were an unnatural response. For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

“But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the best revenge was to turn your life into a small gathering of miracles. If I could not be anchored and profound, I would try, at least, to be kind.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Dec 13, 2010

“When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.”