"I have been the most religious person since I was 2 years old. I always felt this crazy connection to God."

“We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.”

Source : Emile Durkheim (2014). “The Division of Labor in Society”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

“Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.”

Source : Jeremy Collier (1722). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: In Two Parts. ...”

“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.”

“Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.”

“A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime.”

“Be here now. It keeps us in a place of love, not fear.”

Source : "Orange Is the New Black Star Alysia Reiner: Channeling Compassion Into Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

“We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.”

“I never killed anyone with my tuba.”

Source : "Bill Barber" by John Fordham, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2007.