"All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil."

“You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.”

Source : "Carolyn Hax Live: Hootenanny of Holiday Horrors 2015". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. December 11, 2015.

“The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens.”

Source : Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.141

“I'd rather die like Christ than live unholy.”

“If two people can love each other without even speaking the same language, age and numbers are even easier to overcome.”

“Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.”

“How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that musn't be daredIs this the summit, crowning the day? How cool and quiet! We're not exultant; but delighted, joyful, soberly astonished. Have we vanquished an enemy? None but ourselves. Have we gained success? That word means nothing here. Have we won a kingdom? Noand yes. We have achieved an ultimate satisfactionfulfilled a destiny. To struggle and to understand - never this last without the other; such is the law.”

“I am sure the euro will oblige us to introduce a new set of economic policy instruments. It is politically impossible to propose that now. But some day there will be a crisis and new instruments will be created.”

“The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, .. but the only thing that makes what you do (before a behavior) effective is its consistent pairing with a consequence. Antecedents get us going. Consequences keep us going.”