"To serve the cause of water adequately... We must get to know it in its true being. And how do we do this? Why, by treating it in the very way exemplified by its own behavior; that is, whenever we encounter it, we wash the tablet of our souls clean of all other impressions in order to allow the being of water to make its imprint on us."

“Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call.”

“Strong Women never put their safety or their self-esteem aside to please someone else or to keep a man. If someone acts inappropriately or abusively in any way (including becoming emotionally abusive), Strong Women stand up for themselves and make it abundantly clear that they will not tolerate the abuse. If this doesn't work, they walk away.”

Source : Beverly Engel (2011). “AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

“Death was no less a miracle than birth.”

“He drove me home in the van, complaining, 'Women only like me for my mind'.”

“What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.”

“Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.”

Source : "I just wanted to kill" by Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2008.

“As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.”

“When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.”

Source : "Short answers to the tough questions". Book by Mary Ruwart, content.time.com. 1998.