"To remember a successful salad is generally to remember a successful dinner; at all events, the perfect dinner necessarily includes the perfect salad."

“Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God’s hand, from the greatest planet down to the least insect, so does the Bible teach us that there is wisdom, order and design in all the events of our daily life. There is no such thing as 'chance', 'luck', or 'accident' in the Christian journey through this world. All is arranged and appointed by God: and all things are 'working together' for the believer’s good.”

“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”

Source : 1857-8 The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch.10.

“If you pursue a distancer, he or she will distance more. Consider it a fundamental law of physics.”

“The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.”

Source : Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1982). “Mozart”, Vintage

“When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.”

“The phrase I use is 'easy camaraderie.' Non-western immigrants of color and their progeny like me - my parents came here fifty years ago and I was born and raised in Rochester - whether it's Teju Cole, or Rudresh Mahanthappa, or Himanshu Suri, or Miya Masaoka, or Barack Obama, we all have that in common. And that's different from being descended from enslaved African captives. I am very conscious of that difference, and conscious of how easy it is to forget about it. I find myself always coming up against that.”

“I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me.”