"There is no innocent sleep so innocent as sleep shared between a woman and a child, the little breath hurrying beside the longer, as a child's foot runs."

“Our culture is in deep trouble, and at the heart of its trouble is its loss of a vision for manhood. If its difficult for you and me as adult males to maintain our masculine balance in this gender-neutral culture, imagine what it must be like for our sons, who are growing up in an increasingly feminized world.”

“Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.”

Source : "Costa Rica ready to appeal to higher bodies in border dispute". www.cnn.com. November 10, 2010.

“I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.”

Source : 1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

“If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.”

“Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.”

“Not to be such a perfectionist, it makes life hard. I'd like to be more relaxed about everything.”

“When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.”

“What we do comes out of who we believe we are.”

Source : Rob Bell (2010). “Sex God”, p.87, Harper Collins