"Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by"

“To talk of prayer after admitting he professed no faith was, in my opinion, a breach of common courtesy. In this sense, he did make a social blunder, for which I think he well deserved some minor castigation.”

Source : "A Quiet Life". Book by Kenzaburo Oe, 1990.

“We are not hypocrites in our sleep.”

“The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.”

“Jessica Tandy. Nice company! And Ruth Gordon. They worked all along. She didn't really get any big star recognition until Driving Miss Daisy. So what if it takes me that long? Slow and steady wins the race, right? Better a tortoise than a hare.”

“Do you remember which way I was heading?”

Source : Charles Hartshorne (2007). “Hartshorne: A New World View”, p.1, Lulu.com

“I built a system simple enough to sustain itself.”

“Believers are increasingly aware that, unless the Good News is made known also in the digital world, it may be absent in the experience of many people for whom this existential space is important.”

“This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole, and what is my nature, and how this is related to that, and what kind of a part it is of what kind of a whole; and that there is no one who hinders thee from always doing and saying the things which are according to the nature of which thou art a part.”