"To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence."

“Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.”

Source : Frederick Sommer (1984). “Sommer: Words”

“The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.”

“The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence.”

“Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.”

“Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years. The American people know better.”

Source : "U.S. EPA: We need tougher ozone standards" by Gina McCarthy, money.cnn.com. November 26, 2014.

“A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.”

“In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.”

“Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.”

Source : "EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.