"Shamanism is the oldest form of communicating and healing. It probably resides in all of us."

“I'm a total protein shake junkie nerd. I get creative every morning - you never know what you're gonna get in my shake... fruit? Peanut butter? Ice-cream?”

“I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group”

“The life we live today - the environment in which we live - is not one of security - it's one of doubt, one of suspicion, one of absolute tension - we're not a pastoral society any more. We feel around us the pressure of man's inadequacy to control his own development. The time when the great forces of nature, the stones and the rocks, were the gods, is gone.”

“Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.”

“I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.”

“One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.”

Source : Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.214

“I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.”

“Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.”