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“If you knew what a sensation of the nearness of a higher power one instinctively feels when one is permitted to contribute to the good of mankind, as I have done, and still do! Believe me, it is a great gift of God's mercy!”
Source : Ernest Albert Spongberg, Jenny Lind (1920). “The life of Jenny Lind, Oct. 6, 1820-Nov. 2, 1887: a compilation from various sources, in commemoration of the centenary of her birth”
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“I try to keep my life low key, and I don't like going to parties unless they're thrown by a friend of mine, or they're to do with a project I'm in, or it's because I've been nominated for an award.”
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“Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?”
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“First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.”
Source : Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. 
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“Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.”
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“Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.”
Source : Hugh Blair (1827). “Sermons ... To which is prefixed, a short account of the life and character of the author, by James Finlayson ... A new edition, etc. With a portrait”, p.45
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“On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.”
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“Giving someone their style or bumping up their sense of style to be a better version of what it is, is part of the fun of what I do, and I actually approached Al Sharpton. They didn't come to me.”
Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.
