"I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket."

“Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together.”

Source : Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

“For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.”

“Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie.”

“Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.”

“The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.”

“The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position.”

Source : William Rathbone Greg (1851). “The creed of Christendom: its foundations and superstructure”, p.98

“I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.”

“Music sets up certain vibration which unquestionably results in a physical reaction. Eventually the proper vibration for every person will be found and utilized.”