"I live a pretty conservative life, so I probably really haven't done anything crazy."

“Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.”

“I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.”

“You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.”

“God…is the center of all selves.”

“There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.”

Source : Neil Postman (2009). “Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World”, p.71, Delta

“We were broke in a way that only kids can be broke. Our toes were black with dye from wearing boots that weren't waterproof. We had infected ear lobes and green rings around our fingers from cheap jewelry. No one ever even had a chocolate bar.”

Source : Heather O'Neill (2009). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.16, Harper Collins

“Each individual human being can claim the Spirit of Jesus as the guiding spirit of his or her life. In that Spirit we can speak and act freely and confidently with the knowledge that the same Spirit that inspired Jesus is inspiring us.”

“I have spent most of my adult life proving that I existed. A blog is an accessible way of doing this - there is a date and place in cyberspace that I existed a year ago, to the day, and the proof is still there.”

Source : "'Look, I existed then too'". Interview with Natalie Hanman, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2007.