"I like to remind myself, as a parent, that God holds me responsible to, not for, my children!"

“I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.”

“And the walls became the world all around.”

Source : Maurice Sendak (1964). “Where the wild things are”, HarperCollins Publishers

“Of course, I will keep myself fit, keep my boots clean and you never know.”

Source : "From Guv'nor to gaffer". Interview with Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2006.

“May God have mercy on your souls. May God bless your souls.”

Source : "Georgia Executes Inmate Troy Davis After Supreme Court Denies Appeal", www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2011.

“Orange is the happiest color.”

“I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad.”

“The [Tumor Treating Fields] patients can undergo all the activities of their daily life. There's none of the tiredness. There's none of what is called the 'chemo head.'”

“Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.”

Source : Letter to Christian Goldbach, April 17, 1712.