"Everyone has a song in him."

“Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.”

“Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal and oil if we burned them gradually, but how long can it withstand a blaze of consumption so frenzied that the dark size of this planet glows like a fanned ember in the night of space.”

Source : Ronald Wright (2010). “A Short History Of Progress”, p.7, Canongate Books

“To give them what I never had heals me. Some days I look at them and almost start to cry. I think, How can I love them more than I did the day before? But it keeps growing.”

“If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.”

“My joy is not determined by what happens to me, but what Christ is doing in me and through me.”

Source : Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.181, Multnomah

“The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.”

“The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.”

“I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.”