"In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means."

“Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance.”

Source : Jean Liedloff (1975). “The continuum concept”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

“Probably the greatest need in the Church today is a body of men who are absolutely devoted, every selfish purpose and plan given up, to the one great end of magnifying the Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of the nation.”

“I'll be staying in touch and keeping my fans and friends updated on my progress. I'm looking forward to getting back on the road to give the people what they want,”

Source : "Sharon Jones Cancer: Soul Singer Reveals Stage-One Cancer Diagnosis". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2013.

“A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

“In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.”

Source : Mary Ritter Beard, Nancy F. Cott (1991). “A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters”, p.229, Yale University Press

“Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.”

Source : Dave Eggers (2012). “A Hologram for the King”, p.180, McSweeney's

“The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy.”

“So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.”