"That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?"

-- Alexandre Dumas

“People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.”
“The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.”
“God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.”

Source : "Quarks, Chaos & Christianity". Book by John Polkinghorne, 1994.
“Me, me, me! Mine, mine, mine! I'm right, I'm right, I'm right. What's in it for me? How do I use this? How do I take advantage of it? This is the way of the ego. Own this within yourself and you will begin to release yourself from it.”
“Some modern scholars contend that in terms of what "religion" was in that [Roman-era setting], you can't even call Christianity a religion.”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com
“Oi’m always noble, sir; it’s in my blood. ’As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years back. Why?”
“Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself is not prescriptive.”
“John Lee Hooker became a friend of mine and I love all of his work. He was truly an icon. He lived the life. I miss him.”

Source : "Playlist: Mick Fleetwood" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2008.

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