"In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity."

-- Horace

#Hard Times Quotes #Prosperity Quotes #Equanimity Quotes

“When I talk about God, I'm not necessarily talking about religion. To me, God is the energy and light that each of us carries.”

Source : Juanes (2013). “Chasing the Sun”, p.266, Penguin
“If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didnt see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.”

Source : "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 22, 2013.
“Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor beast of burden that he is, can be expected to know a little of each. As the number of physicists increases, each specialty becomes more self-sustaining and self-contained. Such Balkanization carries physics, and indeed, every science further away, from natural philosophy, which, intellectually, is the meaning and goal of science.”

Source : New Scientist, Vol. 21, No. 374, January 16, 1964.
“Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.”
“What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed away, I wanted to buy it from the rest of my family and keep the house in the family. That was the only reason I even attempted writing for money.”
“I am a musician, a songwriter, music fan. I live in New York City and I love my job.”
“Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.”
“All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relative independence along the way, it is a transient and passing glory.”

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