"Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know."

“Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.”

“Brains aren't designed to get results. They go in DIRECTIONS.”

“And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.”

Source : Adam Hochschild (2011). “King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa”, p.356, Pan Macmillan

“What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.”

“Viewing our planet was so compelling. Words like beautiful and awesome just don't do it justice. I felt that I was looking at a paradise. I was looking at heaven. I can't imagine any place being more beautiful than our planet and how lucky we are to be able to live here.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“I'd make a bad preacher.”

“I'm not always really calm, but I try not to get taken away by things that are incredibly transitory.”

Source : "Jennifer Beals Shoots L Word Book, Is Perfect: The Autostraddle Interview". Interview with Jessica Rothschild, www.autostraddle.com. March 5, 2010.

“Sometimes we do that to ourselves -- we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of our personality as being at odds with the rest of ourselves.”