"The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment."

“Let God's promises shine on your problems.”

“A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.”

“From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful; set him down on his four, as yet not quite simultaneous legs, and regarded him. He wandered a little round our legs, neither wagging his tail nor licking at our hands; then he looked up, and my companion said: "He's an angel!"”

“The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.”

“If a community values its children, it must cherish its mothers.”

“People tend to link "sex and drugs" because both are condemned by society. Nevertheless, throughout the ages human beings have continually searched for more ecstasy, more sexual satisfaction, for solutions to their sexual problems, and for aphrodisiacs.”

“If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.”

Source : "Fidel Castro survived 600 assassination attempts, officials say" by Patrick Oppmann, www.cnn.com. November 26, 2016.

“Life is too short to be a boring company.”

Source : "Groupon's $20bn valuation is 'not rational', analysts warn" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com.