"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity."

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Thomas Huxley

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“Tell me, can you see beauty? Can you let it renew your commitment to life, every day? I don't want to wait for death to be near to receive the beauty in my life. I want to be awed every day by the truth-pretty or painful-and let it open me to the beauty that surrounds me and draws me deeper and deeper into my own life.”
“I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.”
“Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism in private. And there's also a strange loneliness, and a desire to have some kind of conversation with people, but not a real great ability to do it in person.”
“It's just silly to look at the incredibly steep decline in the mainline and the clear institutional weakening of Catholicism in the 1960s and 70s and pretend that something really big didn't change then. It did change. There really was a significant institutional decline.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.”

Source : Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1825). “The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.414
“I don't want people to say I'm a solid quarterback. I want to be the best, and I'll continually work until I get there.”
“Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.”
“It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.”

Source : Interview with Michael Sauga and Christoph Schult, www.spiegel.de. July 16, 2012.

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