"In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty."

“To me, jewelry is a natural progression and there is something so meaningful and magical about creating that one of a kind, special piece.”

“It is very unreasonable of people to expect one should be at home, because one is in the house. Of all privileges, that of invisibility is the most valuable.”

Source : Elizabeth Robinson Montagu, Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) (1809). “The letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: with some of the letters of her correspondents”, p.78

“I've got a nine iron that says otherwise.”

“Nobody at any time is cut off from God.”

“What we were trying very hard to do, just in the way we shot it, was to make it feel as if we're in that environment ourselves, just so we can get a grasp on what it is. A lot of our influence was about getting stuck on a level on any of those video games, where you find yourself caught and you can't get out, and it's maddening. We talked a lot about that.”

“The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.”

Source : "This much I know: Joshua Ferris" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2010.

“After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are”

“That was a general impression that one got, that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was always flitting around the country and descending on some place in the Ozarks that she decided was disadvantaged, and announcing that something had to be done. And she had a very active social conscience, which I think in general is to her credit, although it tended, as many people thought, to just be overdone to the point where it gave rise to this crack that she regarded the whole world as one vast slum project”