"All religions do not point to God"

“It's quite astonishing how much money people make in the hedge fund business and in the private equity field, and how well-off affluent families really are.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

“I don't worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it's almost impossible to accurately portray yourself.”

“I like happy sets. Happy sets are good, and I think people feel comfortable on them.”

Source : "RT Interview: David Yates on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. July 15, 2009.

“My own personal view is that vaccines are unsafe and worthless. I will not allow myself to be vaccinated again. .....The bottom line is that infectious diseases are least likely to affect (and to kill) those who have healthy immune systems. I no longer believe that vaccines have any role to play in the protection of the community or the individual. Vaccines may be profitable but, in my view, they are neither safe nor effective. I prefer to put my trust in building up my immune system.”

“There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.”

Source : Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.213, Algonquin Books

“All we have, all we are, are clichés.”

“Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently and shower their silver light into the arms of bare upreaching trees. It was a mad and beautiful thing that scoured raw the souls of animals and man, driving them before it until they loved to run. And what it did to Northern forests can hardly be described, considering that it iced the branches of the sycamores on Chrystie Street and swept them back and forth until they rang like ranks of bells.”

“Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours.”