"Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures."

“A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.”

Source : Jeffrey Archer (2014). “Be Careful What You Wish For”, p.131, Pan Macmillan

“We have to learn to remind the other parents who think we're being careless when we loosen our grip that we are actually trying to teach our children how to get along in the world, and that we believe this is our job. A child who can fend for himself is a lot safer than one forever coddled, because the coddled child will not have Mom or Dad around all the time, even though they act as if he will.”

Source : Lenore Skenazy (2010). “Free-Range Kids, How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry)”, p.186, John Wiley & Sons

“Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.”

“Love between a man and woman is war.”

“Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.”

“Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes”

“I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.”

“God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.”

Source : Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The screenplays”