"We need artists to help us come together and share our voices and build community around powerful issues concerning our roles in the world and our planet's survival. Compassion must be translated into action."

“After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.”

“Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.”

“For all healing, mental or material, is attuning each atom of the body, each  reflex of the brain forces, to the awareness of the divine that lies within each  atom, each cell of the body.”

“I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.”

“The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger - the greatest threat to our inner peace, and therefore our happiness. The mind, or spirit, is not physical, it cannot be touched or harmed directly. Only negative thoughts and emotions can harm it. Therefore, only the corresponding positive quality can protect it.”

Source : Julian Lincoln Simon (1998). “The Ultimate Resource 2”, p.12, Princeton University Press

“I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter.”

“To feel beauty, to feel truth, that is self-remembering. Self-remembering is the awareness of the presence of God.”

Source : Rodney Collin (2017). “The Mirror Of Light”, p.40, Lulu.com

“Rough Johnson, the great moralist.”