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“After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.”
Source : Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2006). “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”, p.190, Penguin UK
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“Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.”
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“I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.”
Source : "Jeremy and Tim Vine - the unlikeliest double-act around". The Saga Magazine Interview, www.saga.co.uk. July, 2012. 
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“& I'm all up all up all up in the bank with the funny face”
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“I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.”
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“The feeling that you get.... when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.”
Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2004). “A Gathering Light”, p.2, A&C Black
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“You never know what your next dig is going to find.”
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“Before we can properly help the people, we have to destroy the old education... that teaches them that somebody is keeping them back and that God has forgotten them and that they can't rise because of their color.. we can only build... with faith in ourselves and with self-reliance, believing in our own possibilities, that we can rise to the highest in God's creation.”
