"What liberates the imagination is the sense that work in its theory and practice holds aesthetic possibilities, that jobs can be elegantly conceived and gracefully done. This sense of beauty unlocks feelings of pleasure and love and breaks down the barrier between worker and work and commit to work not merely the "thinking" consciousness but the full resources of mind."

“Rich colors are typical of a rich nature.”

“Christians – whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever – have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is,”

“To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.”

“Jesus came to establish the kingdom of God as a radical alternative to all versions of the kingdom of the world, whether they declare themselves to be "under God" or not.”

Source : Gregory A. Boyd (2007). “The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power is Destroying the Church”, p.102, Zondervan

“There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore how the minds of their characters work, or to set aside the opportunity to provide necessary background exposition in a succinct fashion.”

“I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up.”

Source : San Diego Museum of Art, Nora Desloge, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Phillip Dennis Cate, Julia Frey (1989). “Toulouse-Lautrec: the Baldwin M. Baldwin Collection, San Diego Museum of Art”, Museum

“It should not be taken in a hot climate. If you are in a place that is cool and peaceful, and you are alone and your mind is turned toward God, then you may take the yogi medicine.”

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

Source : Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books