"Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound."

“There cannot be an answer until there is a prayer.”

“We fail when we give up too soon.”

“Aunt Lovey used to tell me that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed a writer's voice. 'Read,' she'd say, 'and if you have a writer's voice, one day it will shout out, 'I can do that too!”

Source : Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.6, Vintage Canada

“Man is the summit, the crown of nature's development, and must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the fruit includes within itself all the earlier developed parts of the plant. In a word, Man must represent the whole world in miniature.”

Source : Lorenz Oken, Alfred Tulk (1847). “Elements of Physiophilosophy”, p.2

“The truth is that things were already going so poorly for me that nothing surprised me anymore. But then the BKA sent 20 agents to search my house.”

“Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.”

“Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.”

“Mentoring is: Sharing Life's Experiences and God's Faithfulness”

Source : Janet Thompson (2016). “Forsaken God?: Remembering the Goodness of God Our Culture Has Forgotten”, p.173, ACU Press