"A lot of us have been raised with the Bible and with movies from Hollywood to believe that God shouts down from the heavens or appears in a burning bush. It's always so dramatic and kind of scary. So that's what we all expect when we're asking God for some answers."

“Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.”

“Be certain that you're not modeling yourself after someone, but just being who you are meant to be. Go ahead, be weird because "normal" is boring!”

“I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.”

“Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance.”

“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.”

Source : William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.243, Diversion Books

“I made my new album 'Colour Me Free!' in a week with my own money.”

“Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?”

Source : John Wyndham (1967). “Alfred Hitchcock presents stories that scared even me”, Random House Trade

“We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.”