"When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved."

“You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good time. You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself.”

“This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.”

“Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?”

Source : Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.91, Macmillan

“Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.”

Source : George Herbert Palmer (2006). “The Nature of Goodness”, p.137, Cosimo, Inc.

“Driving around with a receding hairline and two kids in a Prius feels a bit boring for me.”

“I am speaking of something that is no longer happening - that is not currently going on. If someone is abusing you, or doing something illegal, or even something you refuse to tolerate, and it's still continuing, that is not an issue of forgiveness, that is an issue of making sure that stops - even if you have to get away from that situation - that's very important.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"Forgiveness", www.youtube.com. July 07, 2007.

“Brown for first course, white for pudding. Brown's savoury, white's the treat. Of course I'm the one who's laughing because I actually love brown toast.”

“I won't do reality. That is done. And I don't want people following me around with a camera 24 hours a day.”

Source : "Standup Mario Cantone won't miss his bus to the Hard Rock". Interview with Rod Stafford Hagwood, articles.sun-sentinel.com. October 10, 2012.