"This country belongs to all of us. We made this country from nothing, from mud-flats... Over 100 years ago, this was a mud-flat, swamp. Today, this is a modern city. Ten years from now, this will be a metropolis. Never fear!"

“Keep inviolate an area of light and peace within you.”

“The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mark Hyman, MD from Sep 11, 2012

“Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.”

Source : Ellen Raskin (2004). “The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.42, Penguin

“No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion.”

Source : James Burgh (2009). “Political Disquisitions”, p.390, Applewood Books

“The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character has been gained, or that his (or her) knowledge of life has been deepened, or that pity, love or sympathy for a human being is awakened.”

“Cath couldn't stop thinking about Levi and his ten thousand smiles.”

“The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it is committed by large numbers. It is the multiplication of the frenzy that assures impunity to the assassins.”

“Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.”