"The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian."

“It is impossible to serve God without serving one another.”

“A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.”

“Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.”

“Just think about it, be honest, how many groups have you heard of in the last five or six, seven, eight years that you never heard of playing live? You never heard of them making a record. You never heard of them in anybody else's band, and all of a sudden they're the biggest thing going. That to me, that's to me social media music. I'm not saying it's right or it's wrong but it is what it is.”

Source : Source: magazine.100percentrock.com

“What bothers people more than anything is that I'm an old guy taking photos of them. But maybe if you look at the photos, 20, 30 years later, it's not going to matter who took the photos. I mean, they would just be there. People will hopefully get over that.”

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”

“I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.”

“Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.”

Source : Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The Courage to be Happy”