"It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age."

“Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume”

“Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.”

“War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.”

Source : Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.30, Lulu.com

“I have now transformed into a sensitive; a person who is able to detect when spirits are present. It's a skill that's evolved over hundreds of paranormal investigations and has taught me that the human body is the best means of paranormal detection. I've become a fine-tuned instrument of spiritual sensitivity.”

“A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information you need is in the others.”

“As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters.”

Source : Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.57, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

“Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.”

“Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people saw in him a disturbing fury. People, a lot them, don't understand fury. They understand anger and even hatred, but fury is one of those old words that have gone out of style. Jimmy Jim Bundrum understood it. It rode his shoulder like a parrot.”

Source : Rick Bragg (2010). “Ava's Man”, p.35, Vintage