"The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts."

“What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a long job through. ... Helping children to face up to a certain amount of drudgery, cheerfully and energetically, is one of the biggest problems that teachers, in these days of ubiquitous entertainment, have to face in our schools ...”

Source : Miss Read (1977). “Chronicles of Fairacre, Comprising Village School, Village Diary, and Storm in the Village”

“There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.”

“People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.”

“A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.”

Source : "Arcade Fire". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 4, 2010.

“Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.”

“Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition.”

“Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!”

“I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.”