"I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness"

“Reading just had a great five-man move that involved everyone.”

“Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.”

“It is impossible to worship God and remain unchanged”

Source : Jack W. Hayford (1992). “The Heart of Praise: Daily Ways to Worship the Father with Psalms”

“I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.”

“Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked with wax, bobbing about in the Red Sea. No one heard my hollers. In the end an old fisherman set me free, by which time I was desperate enough to grant him several wishes. I erupted in the form of a smoking giant, did a few lightning bolts, and bent to ask him his desire. Poor old boy had dropped dead of a heart attack. There should be a moral there, but for the life of me I can't see one.”

“We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.”

Source : Walter Pater (2006). “Marius the Epicurean: Easyread Large Edition”, p.233, ReadHowYouWant.com

“The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone”

Source : Eric Rücker Eddison (1967). “The worm Ouroboros”

“I've always made a point of playing parts where weight has nothing to do with it, and not just weight but looks. It's about being funny and being interesting, and I think there are a lot more interesting things to play than being overweight.”