"It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else."

“You’re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also art. Plus politics and a few other things. The history of everything.”

“To believe that He will preserve us is, indeed, a means of preservation. God will certainly preserve us, and make a way of escape for us out of the temptation, should we fall. We are to pray for what God has already promised. Our requests are to be regulated by His promises and commands. Faith embraces the promises and so finds relief.”

“We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 % of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways.”

Source : "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

“I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried”

Source : Douglas Hyde (1986). “Language, lore, and lyrics: essays and lectures”, Irish Academic Pr

“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.”

Source : "This Week in Fiction: Mohsin Hamid" by Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2012.

“Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.”

“In our performance reviews with women, we need to be saying, "Are you reaching enough? Are you applying for jobs when you meet some of the criteria like men, or are you waiting to meet all the criteria like women do?" There's so much we can do to encourage women to take on more and believe in themselves.”

“It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.”

Source : "Nathan der Weise" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, III, 6, 1779.