"She doesn’t think she’s worthy to live. But she doesn’t realize, she is life."

“All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.”

“Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!”

“Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which their occupation can be expressed. We borrow a foreign word [Savant] from another country whose high ambition it is to advance science, and whose deeper policy, in accord with more generous feelings, gives to the intellectual labourer reward and honour, in return for services which crown the nation with imperishable renown, and ultimately enrich the human race.”

“I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.”

Source : "Is the Freedom of Information Act a good thing?". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

“People will give themselves to prayer for numerous reasons, but at the core of it all is a God, raging with zealous desire.”

“We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard.”

Source : Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Mindfulness is a pause -- the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.”

“There's nothing like space and the ability to make unlimited amounts of noise at any time, especially in San Francisco.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net