"I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position."

“If you want to know a country, read its writers.”

Source : "Survival instincts" by Aminatta Forna, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

“If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.”

“I still enjoy the company of most dogs more than that of most people, because dogs are capable of uncomplicated enthusiasm.”

“I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.”

“But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.”

Source : Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). “Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of "Raymond Or Life and Death" with an Additional Chapter”

“Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.”

“The basis for building a Christian society is evangelism and missions that lead to a widespread Christian revival, so that the great mass of earth's inhabitants will place themselves under Christ's protection, and then voluntarily use his covenantal laws for self-government. Christian reconstruction begins with personal conversion to Christ and self-government under God's law; then it spreads to others through revival; and only later does it bring comprehensive changes in civil law, when the vast majority of voters voluntarily agree to live under biblical blueprints.”

“Love can't be forced into existence,(...)It won't come simply because you will it to happen”