"Integrity gains strength by use."

“My message is very simple and universal, not very intellectual, but humane. Just love each other and live.”

“Fish in the water represent pure potential. If the water is not clear, we do not know if they exist at all. To get them to bite something connected to a line and pull them into our world is managing a birth that brings these creatures from the realm of mysytery into the world of reality. It is a kind of creation.”

“Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we influence ourselves; when we change nature, we change ourselves.”

Source : Daniel Botkin (2012). “The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered”, p.324, Oxford University Press

“I had no issues with lesbians, but I didn't swing the bat that way, and I kind of resented getting molested.”

Source : Gini Koch (2011). “Alien in the Family”, p.102, Penguin

“Usually when you play a team, you want to focus on one line. Pittsburgh is the only team where you have to focus on one player [Mario Lemieux]. When he's coming toward you, all you see is him.”

“It's basically the same, just darker.”

“I am an author-illustrator of children's books - and yet - I must confess I don't do the books for the kids. When I'm working on a book I'm somewhere else - at the circus - or a rustic old farm - or deep in a forest - with no thought of who might read the book or what age group it would appeal to. I write them so I can illustrate them.”

“You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.”

Source : "Keeping the Moon". Book by Sarah Dessen, 1999.