"If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be."

“Who is giving the orders to ants? No one. They are self-organizing. Each of our immune systems get smarter over the years as its biochemical parts share information, and it responds with individualized defenses, but it isn't conscious and it has no memory. The host of that party didn't decree that everyone would gather in the kitchen, but it happened anyway. Emergence means we sometimes act in concert for better or worse.”

“Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.”

Source : Joshua Slocum (2005). “Sailing Alone around the World”, p.95, Shambhala Publications

“Moment to moment, I'm very much just feeling and trying to synthesize what I'm taking in so it can come out musically. I'll continue to do that. I'm also someone who really likes to push themselves into new situations with new people and try to learn from them. I will be very happy to continue doing that, if people let me.”

“Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.”

“Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.”

“The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.”

“Perfection is often the enemy of greatness”

Source : "CoverGirl Janelle Monáe Isn't Afraid to Fail". Interview with Hayley Mason, www.totalbeauty.com.

“Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.”