"Light years beyond anything I expected or dared to hope for!"

“No matter how old or sick or out of shape, you can still stretch and have a new beginning with yoga.”

“The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.”

Source : Louise Beebe Wilder (1990). “The fragrant path”, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

“With the exception of the geometrical series, there does not exist in all of mathematics a single infinite series the sum of which has been rigorously determined. In other words, the things which are the most important in mathematics are also those which have the least foundation.”

“There are different kinds of passages in the movie [Chicken with plums]. One of the passages is like a sitcom and another is a bit more delicate and another is more bizarre, so you have to have people who know how to navigate that.”

“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.”

“It is only when a person gets into difficulty that one can truly see his heart.”

Source : Matthew Polly (2007). “American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in theNe w China”, p.20, Penguin

“To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.”

“As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.”