"I think the future is intrinsically linked with our universal human problems. In fact, it's these very problems, and how we deal with them, which will determine our future."

“She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had overruled her common sense and she had become drunk on ovarian wine, the most potent, sanity- destroying substance in the universe.”

Source : Linda Howard (2012). “Mr Perfect”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

“Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.”

“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”

“We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. We make mental provisions for the days to come, and everything turns out differently, quite differently. Sufficient unto the day. The things that have to be done must be done, and for the rest we must not allow ourselves to become infested with thousands of petty fears and worries.”

“Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.”

“Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.”

Source : 'The House of Life' (1881) pt. 1 'Silent Noon'

“An artist who opposes himself still has the best chances to reach some result.”

“If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.”