"I tore the dreams from my head and tossed them in the flames. And the smoke smelled like my past, and it stung my eyes but I was too stubborn to blink."

“My work embodies little visions of the great intangible.. ..Some will say he's gone mad - others will look and say he's looked in at the lattices of Heaven and come back with the madness of splendor on him.”

Source : "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 25, 1988.

“I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.”

“Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?”

Source : Martin E. Marty (1993). “A Cry of Absence: Reflections for the Winter of the Heart”, Harper San Francisco

“If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fishing-boat in the great Norway horror which decorated our school geographies; for no woman had ever done such a thing, and I could never again hold up my head under the burden of shame and disgrace which would be heaped upon me. But what matter? I had no children to dishonor; all save one who had ever loved me were dead, and she no longer needed me, and if the Lord wanted some one to throw into that gulf, no one could be better spared than I.”

“The Heisenberg principle - If something is closely observed, the odds are it is going to be altered in the process. The more a price pattern is observed by speculators the more prone you have false signals; the more the market is a product of nonspeculative activity, the greater the significance of technical breakout”

“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”

“Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants.”

“The law is above the law, you know.”

Source : Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “The Little Brothers”, p.89, Open Road Media