"Autumn in my garden is when trees give their tickertape welcome to winter."

“If cancer specialists were to admit publicly that chemotherapy is of limited usefulness and is often dangerous, the public might demand a radical change in direction-possibly toward unorthodox and nontoxic methods, and toward cancer prevention. ...The use of chemotherapy is even advocated by those members of the establishment who realize how ineffective and dangerous it can be.”

Source : Ralph W. Moss (1996). “The Cancer Industry: The Classic Exposé on the Cancer Establishment”

“There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.”

“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind... The time is always right to do the right thing. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”

“We're all haunted in one way or another, are we not? If not by spirits, then by our own demons and regrets.”

Source : Teresa Medeiros (2013). “The Temptation of Your Touch”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

“Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.”

“No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.”

“Kariakin-Shirov saw another theoretical battle in the 6...Bc5 Spanish, which has been one of the opening tabiyas of the event. [...] The most remarkable feature of the game, and a testament to the depth of Kariakin's preparation, is that when the draw was agreed at move 39, his clock showed 1.52 remaining, some twelve minutes more than he started the game with!”

“Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.”