"The gap between the rich and poor is growing among and within most nations. The political and social effects of unequal location of energy and other mineral resources are acute. Population numbers continue to climb. The global environment shows signs of widespread deterioration. Both natural and social environments are increasingly vulnerable to catastrophic disturbances... There may, however, be a cheering challenge in the possibility that out of its struggle with these realities the human race may move a bit nearer to behaving as if it were indeed one family."

“I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble.”

“JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever”

“A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.”

“We'll bring out the Elvis TV trays.”

Source : Song: Lifestyles Of The Not So Rich And Famous, Album: No Ordinary Man

“I was a very weird amalgam of things as a kid.”

“Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.”

Source : Kathleen McDonald (2011). “How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

“There's a strange something, which without a brain Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, Planted in man, to bind him to that earth, In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth.”

Source : Charles Churchill, James Hannay (1866). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill, with notes by W. Tooke. with a memoir by J.L. Hannay”, p.229

“Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.”

Source : Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd