"We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us."

“I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.”

Source : "David Cameron speech: UK and the EU". www.bbc.com. January 23, 2013.

“In holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.”

“Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck, timing and accident.”

“I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.”

“My philosophy, don't let cancer ruin your life. You get up every day and use what you have and what time you have left.”

“God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.”

Source : Ralph Ellison (2010). “Three Days Before the Shooting . . .”, p.987, Modern Library

“We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.”

“People have to evolve.”