"He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing."

“When brother Brigham and brother Joseph Young went up to see the Prophet, they found him chopping wood; for he was a labouring man, and gained his bread by the sweat of his brow. They made themselves acquainted with him. He received them gladly, invited them to his house, and they rejoiced together in the Gospel of Christ, and their hearts were knitted together in the spirit and bond of union.”

“Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.”

“The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.”

“If there is such a thing as a universal--and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window--it's that there is power in a story. And if someone pays you such a kindness as to make up a tale so you'll enjoy a gingersnap, you go along with that story and enjoy every last bite.”

Source : Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.144, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

“One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.”

Source : Daniil Kharms, Aleksandr Ivanovich Vvedenskiĭ, George Gibian (1987). “The Man with the black coat: Russia's literature of the absurd : selected works of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky”, Northwestern Univ Pr

“A king is no king without his people, but a people without their king would be lost as well. Lan Fan (Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood)”

“I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have an ecologically sound society under socialism. I don't think it is possible under capitalism.”

“When one has no form, one can be all forms.”