"Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment."

“The truth is that every book we read, like every person we meet, has the capacity to change our lives. And though we can be sure our children will meet people, we must, must create, these days, their chance to meet books.”

“What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's tomb and do DNA samples and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the virgin birth was just a bit of mythologizing the Gospel writers threw in to appeal to the followers of the Mithra and Dionysian religious cults that were hugely popular at the time of Jesus, whose gods had virgin births? Could you still be a Christian? Is the way of Jesus still the best possible way to live?”

“Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.”

“We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.”

“The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.”

“The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.”

Source : El Lissitzky (1968). “El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts”

“Dripping rain like golden honey- And the sweet earth flying from the thunder”

Source : Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.10, UNC Press Books

“We create our future, by well improving present opportunities: however few and small they be.”