"I hit every day. I love to hit."

“It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.”

“Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper Egypt, someone, possibly a monk from a nearby monastery of St Pachomius, took the banned books and hid them from destruction - in the jar where they remained buried for almost 1,600 years.”

Source : Elaine Pagels (2004). “The Gnostic Gospels”, p.17, Random House

“Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.”

Source : "McGreevey Describes 'Intensely Personal Decision' in Speech". James McGreevey's speech televised live from Trenton, www.nytimes.com. August 12, 2004.

“A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.”

“There comes a time in every person's life when he has to choose the course his life will take.”

“Who is righteous? Anyone who is repenting. No matter how bad he has been, if he is repenting he is a righteous man. There is hope for him. And no matter how good he has been all his life, if he is not repenting, he is a wicked man. The difference is which way you are facing. The man on the top of the stairs facing down if much worse off than the man on the bottom step who is facing up. The direction we are facing, that is repentance; and that is what determines whether we are good or bad.”

Source : Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

“Sustainability has become a religion in architecture - not that there's anything wrong with it - but I think it has to work both ways. Everyone thinks architecture has to be subservient to sustainability, but what if we thought in the other direction, like, what can sustainability do to make architecture more exciting?”

Source : Source: www.revelinnewyork.com

“Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order.”