"It sucks to try and book a tour without the internet, and I'm not even doing it."

“Faith means that a man should regard any disaster simply as a fate-determined blow which must be endured.”

Source : Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

“When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.”

“Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I can only reply, “The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of ‘infinity’ as if it were a number. It’s not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?’ I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. ‘Infinity,’ ‘truth,’ ‘beauty’—those are not numbers.”

Source : John Derbyshire (2003). “Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics”, p.21, Joseph Henry Press

“We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.”

“One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.”

“The role you've been ascribed in childhood can twist or break apart or seem outgrown, especially when you have your own family and begin to see your own childhood from a different angle. You remember. You reassess. I think that was the kernel of the novel for me. This idea that you change but that your family, the people you were born into, might find that change hard to accept. You no longer fit the mold you've always been ascribed. When the adult children in the book converge back on their small family home there's a sense that they don't fit there anymore.”

“[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.”

Source : Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.17, Macmillan

“War is the highest form of modern art.”