"I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]"

“Now, the first preachers of the Christ evangel preached Christ. They did not, in the first place, preach salvation or sanctification or forgiveness, or judgment or heaven. That does not mean that they did not preach those things: they did; but not in the first place. They preached Christ, and all those things were included in the preaching of Christ.”

“A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, ‘Where have they taken Him?’”

“Meditation practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart.”

“Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites.”

“gettimg attached to things is pointless. Thats how things get screwed up.People care to much about everything. Let it go. You'll be happier.”

Source : Nick Burd (2009). “The Vast Fields of Ordinary”, p.94, Penguin

“I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.”

Source : Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. December 8, 2009.

“Methodology is intuition reconstructed in tranquility”

Source : "The Mind Traveller: A Guide to Paul F. Lazarsfeld's Communicating Research Papers". Book by Ann K. Pasanella, p. 22, 1994.

“To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.”