"Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the old man, the same character at heart he ever was?"

“Don't let your silly dreams fall in between the crack of the bed and the wall.”

Source : "My Morning Jacket" by Carrie O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2003.

“True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.”

Source : Sakyong Miphan Rinpoche (2004). “Turning the Mind Into an Ally”, p.15, Penguin

“I am talking about misery and all of its implications.”

“Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.”

“The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them.”

“You got to risk something to be able to give something, you know?”

“One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other Houses with the Bones of Our Own.' Maybe not the most uplifting audience sing-along in the indie rock world, but one of the most reliably entertaining.”

“Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.”

Source : Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.382, Simon and Schuster