"What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me. Have you any good news? That is the question that I ask of you. I know your exhortations will not help me. But if anything has been done to save me, will you not tell me the facts?"

“Goodness transcends badness.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Ormonde, www.londoncalling.com. November 21, 2015.

“I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.”

Source : Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.212, Broadway Books

“I have always wanted to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change, inspiring others to choose goodness.”

Source : "Women in Business Q&A: Shari Arison, Owner the Arison Group". Interview with Laura Dunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2014.

“War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states”

Source : Donald Kagan (1996). “On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace”, Anchor

“Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.”

“Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your - your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action. As long as you gotta sit-down philosophy, you’ll have a sit-down thought pattern, and as long as you think that old sit-down thought you’ll be in some kind of sit-down action.”

“Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.”

“Fundamentalist groups like Christian Embassy have infiltrated the very top of the U.S. military and gained positions of influence in the Pentagon.”

Source : "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel W. Ray, 2009.