"If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing."

“Loyalty, up and down the line. That's one quality an organization must have to be successful.”

“Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”

“The rules of engagement are so lax that soldiers are shooting and killing Iraqis under mere suspicion, and tragedies are everyday. There are road killings, killings on the road when someone is trying to pass a convoy and they get shot. Or if a roadside bomb goes off, the soldiers just start shooting in all directions.”

“We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.”

“Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.”

Source : E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.157, Random House

“It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.”

Source : Mary Webb (1928). “Precious Bane”

“Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning.”

Source : Katsuki Sekida (2005). “Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy”, p.211, Shambhala Publications

“My attraction has never been to computers per se, but to the fact that they offer a highly leveraged way to invent magic.”

Source : "Bing adds features to try to gain on Google" by Dina Bass, www.sfgate.com. August 9, 2010.