"Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need."

“I think I've had my fill of electoral law.”

“The Arabs understandably did everything they could to protect their monopoly. Coffee beans were treated before being shipped to ensure they were sterile and could not be used to seed new coffee plants; foreigners were excluded from coffee-producing areas. First to break the Arab monopoly were the Dutch, who displaced the Portuguese as the dominant European nation in the East Indies during the seventeenth century, gaining control of the spice trade in the process and briefly becoming the world's leading commercial power.”

“When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I would just greet people and talk to them and avoid taxes, and getting behind the bar. What else.”

“Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.”

“Being bored is an insult to oneself.”

Source : Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.62, Tin House Books

“Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.”

“I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.”

Source : "Aussie Keith Urban's success 'destiny'" By Lauren Hunter, cnn.com. February 19, 2001.

“Of course we got drunk!" Semyon said. "It's okay to get drunk, Anton. If you need to real bad. Only you have to get drunk on vodka. Cognac and wine—that's all for the heart." "So what's vodka for?" "For the soul. If it's hurting real bad”