"In Cuba and specifically in Havana there's a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected."

“I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.”

“They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to fit the dictates of their intuition. In short, they broke all the laws of rigor and of mathematical decorum. The veritable orgy which followed the introduction of the infinitesimals... was but a natural reaction. Intuition had too long been held imprisoned by the severe rigor of the Greeks. Now it broke loose, and there were no Euclids to keep its romantic flight in check.”

“Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.”

“Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.”

Source : Sir Richard Branson (2011). “Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life and Business”, p.121, Random House

“Healing does not take place in the fast lane.”

“"The Cursed Wheel," which Declan [Shalvey] is starting here, is the one constant. It's a story in the backups that will go through the whole year and be the one consistent narrative. It anchors the entire [book].”

Source : Source: www.denofgeek.com

“When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.”

“I still got my hair, I'm not fat.”