"God, through Jesus Christ, is the victory, and the renewed earth will reflect that glory."

“I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.”

“I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.”

Source : Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

“Plexi, plexi, bend don't shatter. Once you're broken, shape won't matter.”

“I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty much eliminate meetings from my life.”

“A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters.”

“Style doesn't change every month or every year. It only changes as often as there is a real change in the point of view and lives of the people for whom it is produced.”

“Every democracy must involve civil society in the process of establishing budgets, and all sectors of society must be consulted to determine what the real priorities of the population are. Lobbies, including military contractors and other representatives of the military-industrial complex, must not be allowed to hijack these priorities to the detriment of the population's real needs.”

Source : "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

“The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.”