"In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself."

“It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.”

Source : "Don't confuse 'readability' with dumbing down" by Graham Joyce, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

“Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.”

Source : Conrad Hyers (2003). “The Comic Vision and the Christian Faith: A Celebration of Life and Laughter”, p.79, Wipf and Stock Publishers

“In many ways my writing is like therapy. It is my way of dealing with things.”

“Self-compassion-being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure-is associated with more motivation and better self-control.”

“There is no disgrace in peace. There can never be dishonor in peace.”

Source : Morgan Llywelyn (2010). “1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War”, p.388, Macmillan

“Learn always but never appear to be learning.”

Source : Robert Ludlum (2012). “The Bourne Ultimatum: Jason Bourne Book #3”, p.677, Bantam

“timeliness is an enemy to art.”

“The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.”