"It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get."

“What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.”

“In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background noise and distractions, of slowing down and simply being alone with our thoughts.”

Source : Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

“Books are the best type of the influence of the past.”

“The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around.”

“The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious settlers, whose labor creates wealth and contributes to the public resources, are worth more to the United States than if they had been reserved as a solitude for future purchasers.”

“The interesting thing about gay people is that you can't really put on a wedding without them. They're the ones who make your dress, and do the flowers and the catering. They've toiled in the wedding industry all these years but were never allowed to do it themselves.”

“This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.”

Source : "Creation, Evolution, & Modern Science: Probing the Headlines that Impact Your Family". Book by Raymond G. Bohlin, 2000.

“The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch.”