"But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love."

“Stalking along from log to log, or plunging their long legs in the oozy swamp, two large herons paid no attention to my presence, but occupied themselves with their own fishing arrangements, as if their wilderness were their own.”

Source : William Cowper Prime (1876). “I Go A-fishing”, p.132

“I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.”

“The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.”

“Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records.”

Source : "Laurieann Gibson: 'We've Created a New Jerusalem' With Lady Gaga's 'Judas' Video". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2011.

“You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms...”

Source : Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, D. M. Thomas (1985). “You will hear thunder: Akhmatova, poems”, Ohio Univ Pr

“For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.”

Source : "America Has a Prayer". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 6, 2012.

“A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.”

“You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.”