"The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them."

“Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.”

Source : Richard de Bury (2013). “Philobiblon: A Treatise on the Love of Books”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

“Never invest emergency savings in the stock market.”

“I definitely make an effort to work on different styles of music: not working on too many post-rock bands, or too many heavy bands, or too many folk bands, or just whatever. I have no desire to be known as somebody that just works on a single style of music and would rather avoid it, actually.”

Source : "John Congleton: Meet Indie Rock's Unsung Hero Of 2011". Interview with Mike Katzif, www.npr.org. December 23, 2011.

“Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation.”

“A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.”

“Love between the ugly, is the most beautiful love of all”

Source : Song: Does Anybody Love You?, Album: A Wizard, A True Star, 1973

“There is no fate, but what we create.”

“As a scientist, I can not help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired.The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 24, 2002.