"Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)"

“He (Shaithan) is extremely patient. He won't get you in one shot. He'll come at you and he'll put a little bit and a little bit and a little bit until he destroys your character.”

“The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.”

Source : William Robertson Smith, John Sutherland Black (1907). “Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: First Series. The Fundamental Institutions”

“I don't think I'm boring.”

“The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.”

“Everything happens at the time it needs to happen. I do not push destiny. Boxers take different paths in their career and those roads don't always come together.”

“Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's not a question of superior or inferior taste, merely a question of which detour we are on at the moment. Getting there (as they say) is not important; the wandering about in the wilderness or in the olive groves or in the bayous is the whole point.”

Source : Henry Mitchell (2014). “Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.”

“Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.”