"There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others."

“Life is a process--just one thing after another. When you lose it, just start again.”

Source : Richard Carlson (1999). “A Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Treasury: A Special Selection for Mothers”, Hyperion

“If a dragon has already transferred their consciousness to their heart of hearts, then they will die a true death.”

“Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration.”

Source : "The Gitmo Experiment: How Methods Developed by the U.S. Military For Withstanding Torture are Being Used Against Detainees at Guantanamo Bay". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 6, 2005.

“"The best form of devotion to the service of Allah is not to make a show of it."”

“His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.”

Source : Laura Hillenbrand (2003). “Seabiscuit: An American Legend”, p.49, Ballantine Books

“Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.”

“What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want to die. That, too, was mine; and it also is to the good. For that experience resolved proportions and relationships for me as nothing else could have done; and it is surprising, approaching the final enlightenment, how little one really has to know or feel sure about.”

Source : Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.8, Island Press

“Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois”