"Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides."

“Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.”

“My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.”

“music became my refuge and then my salvation.”

“Believing there is a solution paves the way to a solution.”

“There comes a time when you're losing a fight that it just doesn't make sense to keep on fighting. It's not that you're being a quitter, it's just that you've got the sense to know when enough is enough.”

Source : Christopher Paul Curtis, Holt Rinehart & Winston (2002). “Bud, not Buddy: with connections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

“Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies.”

“Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.”

Source : Paul Ricoeur (1974). “The Conflict of Interpretations”, p.381, Northwestern University Press

“life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything”