"The typical modern has the look of the hunted."

“Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?”

Source : Helen Hunt Jackson (1892). “Poems”

“I've watched all (of Webb's) dunks on tape. I talked to him about what his preparations were going into the dunk contest. He just said he practiced a couple of days before. That's what I did. I practiced for two weeks, I know my routine, and I'm going to go in there, and I'm not going to shy away from it.”

“The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.”

Source : Saint-John Perse, Luigi Pirandello, Henrik Pontoppidan, Salvatore Quasimodo (1971). “St.-John Perse, Luigi Pirandello, Henrik Pontoppidan, Salvatore Quasimodo”

“Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.”

Source : "Anti-Americanism: Comparative perspectives". Book by Brendon O'Connor, Martin Griffiths, 2007.

“God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.”

“I, quite frankly, am grateful for every day. I don't take anything for granted.”

“Pretty much the worst reason to bomb someone is to prove that you're willing to bomb someone.”

Source : "'The Obama Doctrine': Examining White House Foreign Policy". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 10, 2016.

“When people run a business and open their door to the public, they must serve the public. That doesn't mean they can't say whatever they want to say. It doesn't mean they can't believe whatever they want to believe. Those are protected also. But businesses must serve the public. And that's a principle that we fought for in this country over many, many decades, when some were invoking religious freedom as an excuse to deny people on the basis of their race, on the basis of their religion, on the basis of sex and on the basis now of sexual orientation. Let's not confuse one thing with the other.”