"Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also the larger dimension of our being."

“The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.”

“For the record: I wear makeup. All. The. Time. But I do it in a way that looks natural.”

Source : "Interview with Entourage's Emmanuelle Chriqui". Interview with Suzanne Zuckerman, www.womenshealthmag.com. June 23, 2009.

“I think alot of vocalists believe in the sound, or the way they sing it - it's interchangable.”

“I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.”

“We are not to throw away those things which can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they are instruments for good, in the hands of those who use them properly.”

“"But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?" I answer, "What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need - the need of Himself?"”

Source : George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

“If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.”

Source : "The Mountains of Pi" by Richard Preston, www.newyorker.com. March 02, 1992.

“It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word.”