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“"Le génie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le génie, c'est l'impatience dans les idées et la patience dans les faits : une imagination vive et un jugement calme; quelque chose comme un liquide en ébullition dans un vase qui reste toujours froid. "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.”
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“I will not change the world. Jesus will do that. I can, however, let Him use me to change the world for one person.”
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“Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man.”
Source : "Fictional character: Ralphie as an Adult". "A Christmas Story", www.imdb.com. November 18, 1983. 
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“[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company.”
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“What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.”
Source : "Richard Rorty. What made him a crucial American philosopher?" by Stephen Metcalf, www.slate.com. June 18, 2007.
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“We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.”
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“New York, it was an adult portion. It was an adult dose. So it took a couple of trips to get into it. You just go in the first time and you get your ***** kicked and you take off. As soon as it heals up, you come back and you try it again. Eventually, you fall right in love with it.”
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“For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark vaults of imagination. Lying on bloody sheets in the Healing Hall I discovered doors within my mind that I'd not found before, doors that even a child of nine knows should not be opened. Doors that never close again. I threw them wide.”
Source : Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.21, Penguin
