"The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression."

“When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.”

“The fact is that the truth of harmony and human brotherhood derives not from an absorbed trance but from an awakened prajñâ or wisdom; and its validity depends not on any dramatic ecstatic visions but it belongs to man's (...) natural reason unspoilt by theologies of exclusiveness.”

Source : "Ramakrishna Mission" by Ram Swarup, (p.13), 1986.

“Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.”

Source : "The Frightening Hungarian Crackdown". www.newyorker.com. January 8, 2013.

“If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!”

“I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.”

Source : W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.637, Oxford University Press

“God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.”

“I look at you looking at me, Now I know why the best things are free, How you've changed my world You'll never know, I'm different now, You've helped me grow.”

“Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.”