"Learning an instrument isn't about becoming a star anymore than learning to swim means you want to become a haddock"

“How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life.”

“Using clichés is a substitute for thinking”

“I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.”

“Very close by the CMS shops, hidden about a quarter mile away in the woods, was the prison's rifle range. Correctional officers could spend quality time with their firearms down there, and the hammering of multiple rounds was typical background noise during our workdays. There was something unsettling about toiling away for a prison while listening to your jailers practice shooting you.”

Source : Piper Kerman (2010). “Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison”, p.166, Spiegel & Grau

“I didn't choose BYU, I like to think it chose me.”

“When people begin to understand that whatever they think and feel happens, then the psychic phenomena begin to rise, which is what's happening now.”

“The most authentic and hallowed Wiccan tradition is stealing from any source that didn't run away too fast”

Source : Margot Adler (2006). “Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America”, p.92, Penguin

“I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge.”