"Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter."

“I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jeb Hensarling from Mar 29, 2013

“When you welcome your emotions as teachers, every emotion brings good news, even the ones that are painful.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jul 04, 2013

“Factory farming is terrible for the environment—not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about it, is to become a vegetarian and just spread the word. The world would change for the better for animals, humans, and the planet if everyone took that step.”

“I enjoyed like nothing else working in pure math, discovering new formulas.”

Source : "Rookie in Congress touts science / Bay Area lawmaker stakes out issues, watches his back" by Zachary Coile, www.sfgate.com. May 14, 2007.

“Take pride in yourself. Be your own person.”

“Sometimes bad is bad.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 11, 2012

“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.”

“Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.”

Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books