"There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save"

“I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.”

Source : "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

“If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.”

“'F - k you' is not really the best way to articulate how you feel.”

“The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds”

Source : Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.72, Image

“What we deplore is not that the gate of western knowledge was thrown open to Indians, but that such knowledge was imported to India at the sacrifice of our own cultural heritage. What was needed was a proper synthesis between the two systems and not neglect, far less destruction, of the Indian base.”

Source : Speech delivered at Gurkula Visvavidyalaya Convocation on 25th April 1943, "Educational Speeches" by Dr. Shyamaprasad Mookerjee, A.Mukherjee & Co. (Private) Ltd., 2 College Square, Kolkata 700 012, 1959.

“I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.”

“A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.”

“Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.”