"There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth."

“I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.”

“My relationship with Barack Obama isn't based on my political philosophy or his.”

Source : "Sen. Tom Coburn: A proud contrarian". "60 minutes" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 21, 2014.

“Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself...I felt almost pressed to death with my own vileness. Oh what a body of death is there in me...Oh the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!”

Source : David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.63

“The female struggle implies the black struggle, it implies the struggle with anti-Semitism, it implies all of the other struggles. That is the only possible way to think about human liberation.”

“Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.”

Source : Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.6, Bread and Circuses Publishing

“I love the majesty of human suffering.”

Source : La Maison du Berger (1844)

“Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering.”

Source : FaceBook post by Caroline Myss from Feb 14, 2014

“Today, I will try to remember to regret the past. I will think of how many mistakes I have made throughout my life. I will say to myself, "If only I could go back in time and make different choices, so that my life could be the way it should have been." Then I will remind myself that I cannot.”

Source : "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.