"Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage."

“It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?”

“For each of us has a perch on the tree. After we are gone, that perch is marked by a notch, permanent, yes, but with its edges muting over time, assuming the tree is ever growing. Years from now someone can see that you were here, or there, and although you had little conception or care for the wider branching, in the next life there might be a sigh of wonder at how quietly flourishing it all was, if never majestic.”

“The world is in your hands, now use it.”

Source : Song: Dance Into The Light, Album: Dance Into The Light, 1996

“It's easy to forget who you are.”

“One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what he wrote has seemed to several generations of Christians to be so rare and so beautiful as to deserve a place near the top among the world's great books of devotion. The writings of Brother Lawrence are the ultimate in simplicity; ideas woven like costly threads to make a pattern of great beauty.”

“The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.”

Source : Irwin Edman (1968). “The Uses of Philosophy: An Irwin Edman Reader”

“Freedom of speech doesn't guarantee great literature.”

“You don't have to agree with me, but I think the heart of who we are stays pretty much the same," Hope said, "What changes is how those core traits manifest themselves over time.”

Source : Megan McCafferty (2007). “Fourth Comings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.337, Broadway Books