"I'm the perfect candidate to be affected by SARS. I'm highly susceptible to infections."

“The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.”

Source : FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Mar 06, 2013

“Could rivalry be a productive system?”

“I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.”

Source : "Laurence Fox: 'I knew Billie was the one for me...'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2010.

“Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest.”

Source : Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.73, Thomas Nelson Inc

“Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.”

“It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself.”

“If it had blown up, I wouldn’t have known a thing about it.”

“You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.”