"The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response."

“He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were sufficient to the moment or that would change a single thing.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kent Haruf from Dec 18, 2016

“If you have zero access to the Internet, that is an offline device.”

Source : "Gamers Without Internet Can Stick With Xbox 360, Says Microsoft" by Luke Reilly, www.ign.com. June 11, 2013.

“The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.”

“I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want. The thing is, I do identify with being black, and if people don't identify me that way that's their issue. I’m happy to challenge people's understanding of what it looks like to be biracial, because guess what? In the next 50 years, people will start looking more and more like me.”

“But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.”

“I have found it helpful to say a prayer asking to understand the scriptures when I read them. Then I ask, "What does Heavenly Father want me to learn from this scripture?" He always helps.”

“Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.”

“Lest we forget at least an over the shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins - or which is which), the very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer.”

Source : Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.9, Vintage