"Less fear; more hope: just four little four-letter words, but when they are vividly felt as emotion, they are behavior changing, life changing, world-changing."

“I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.”

“...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.”

“The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.”

“Poetry is a dangerous gift ...”

“A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.”

Source : Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.273, Harvard University Press

“If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.”

“The greatest mystery of all is reality.”

“I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.”