"Punishment is justice for the unjust."

“You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.”

“...when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If you board the wrong train,' he said, 'it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.”

Source : Eric Metaxas (2011). “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy”, p.136, Thomas Nelson Inc

“It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”

“Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.”

“All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is”

“The blooming of a flower is, in my mind, not a miracle. It's something that we can understand on the basis of molecular biology these days”

“The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.”

Source : Anna Leonowens (2009). “The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok”, p.184, Applewood Books

“There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery.”