"I was sick of wanting money. I was sick of being without a goal."

“How can this come about?" Mary asked. "The Holy Spirit will come upon you," the angel answered, "and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow." And now you are the one who puts the question: "How can bread become Christ and wine His Blood?" I answer: "The power of the Holy Spirit will be at work to give us a marvel which surpasses understanding.”

“If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.”

Source : "The Rationality of Induction". Book by David Stove, Oxford: Clarendon, p. 176, 1986.

“Hands learn more than minds do, hands learn how to hold other hands...”

“The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.”

Source : Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.16, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

“I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money...as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts.”

“I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page story and handed it in to my teacher. She told my mother I was going to be a writer. Since then, I always kept a journal and wrote poetry, plays, stories.”

“I think I can be competitive. Heck, anybody who can walk to the first tee here has a chance.”

“A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it demanding: the fact that so much was left out.”

Source : "The Commandments" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. January 17, 2011.