"Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities."

“A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.”

Source : FaceBook post by Etta James from Sep 21, 2013

“Some of the best opportunities in the world are the most obvious ones.”

“Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg. Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came. Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself.”

“Just this once, let it be easy.”

Source : Karen Hesse, Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Lord, Ann M. Martin (2013). “Scholastic Newbery Collection”, p.558, Scholastic Inc.

“All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States - and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!”

“All of us have the capacity to attract to ourselves what seems to be missing in our lives.”

“...go in the direction your head is pointed in.”

Source : Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

“An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.”