"I always feel like there is some dude out there with money that I could fall back on if I needed to."

“Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.”

Source : "Leisure, the Basis of Culture" by Josef Pieper, translated by Gerald Malsbary, South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine's Press, (pp. 106-107), 1998.

“You have the morals of rabbit, the character of a slug, and the brain of a platypus.”

“Modern feminism cannot survive without victims.”

“Don't die before your dead! Don't let anything stand in your way of God's appointed purpose for your life.”

“Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in the New Lecture Hall. And when he was done, Professor Whitehead, who presided, thanked him for his efforts, and not least for 'leaving the vast darkness of the subject unobscured'.”

“I don't know if I should say this, but I feel more like a singer than an artist.”

Source : "Jessie Ware: 'I want to be a private pop star, like Sade or Annie Lennox'" by Sam Richards, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2012.

“You have to prove your success in order to grow.”

Source : Source: wwd.com

“People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality.”