"What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly."

“What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.”

“I am more afraid of doing what is wrong than of dying.”

Source : Philip Doddridge (1831). “The Correspondence and Diary of Philip Doddridge, D. D.: Illustrative of Various Particulars in His Life Hitherto Unknown; with Notices of Many of His Contemporaries; and a Sketch of the Ecclesiastical History of the Times in which He Lived”, p.233

“There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.”

“I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century, a time when the spirit of the community, the non-ideological blend of the emotional and rational and the resistance to categories and forms will emerge through the forces of anti-nationalism to provide us with a new kind of society. I call this process the Judaization of Christianity because Christianity will be the vehicle through which this society becomes Jewish.”

“The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.”

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

Source : Principles of Psychology (1890) vol. 2, ch. 22

“I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.”

“Our own economy tells us to take as much as we can get, right? Our own economy says, you're going to be the most successful graduate if you go into the business world and take as much you can get. That's not how nature works. Nature has a much simpler economy. Everything in nature takes what it needs. That's it. You don't see an oak tree gathering up all the resources. An oak tree takes what it needs to be the authentic oak tree it is.”