"Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity."

“I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.”

“Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life”

“Take heed lest you stumble.”

“Liza-don't let it make any difference. It won't, will it? With us, I mean." "Of course it won't," I told her. But I was wrong. Six months of not writing-that's a difference. And so I lied to Annie. On top of everything else, I lied to Annie, too.”

Source : Nancy Garden (2017). “Annie on My Mind”, p.111, Open Road Media

“To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.”

“As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.”

“The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.”

“Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.”

Source : Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.136, Penguin