"Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash."

-- Jonathan Lethem

“Joy is the settled assurance that God is in control of all the details of my life, the quiet confidence that ultimately everything is going to be all right, and the determined choice to praise God in all things.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kay Warren from Mar 13, 2012
“Like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone.”

Source : Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Donâ€™t put clothes on food. Itâ€™s supposed to be naked.”
“Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.”
“There is, of course, great value in belonging to a group. Safety in numbers, for one. But there is also a mathematical explanation for why the brain is so willing to give up its own opinions: a group of people is more likely to be correct about something than an individual.”

Source : Gregory Berns (2013). “Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently”, p.88, Harvard Business Press
“The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.”
“Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers.”
“I am not a number, I am a free man!”

Source : "The Prisoner". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1967 - 1968.

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