"Happiness is not in the having or being- it is in the doing."

-- Lillian Watson

“You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula.”
“I came in the door, I said it before I never let the mic magnetize me no more. But it's biting me, fighting me, inviting me to rhyme, I can't hold it back...I'm looking for the line. Taking off my coat, clearing my throat, My rhyme will be kicking until I hit my last note.”
“I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.”
“Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we're on our knees, but while we're on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us.”
“There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.”
“Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.”

Source : Sir John Davies (1869). “The Complete Poems: (including Psalms I. to L. in Verse, and Other Hitherto Unpublished Mss.)”, p.137
“The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in magic, angels, and divine intervention.”
“Some people say that suicide is a sin, but I have never believed that. I say it's God's way of calling certain folks home early. It's much nicer than an awful accident, where the rest of us are left wondering if the person really wanted to go.”

Source : Faith Sullivan (2011). “The Cape Ann: A Novel”, p.296, Broadway Books

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