"Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them."

“If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.”

“Viewed as a drama, the war is somewhat disappointing.”

Source : c.1915 Comment on World War I. Quoted in Leslie Halliwell Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1984).

“There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something.”

Source : "Tom Odell: 'Having your heart broken makes for good songs'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2013.

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.”

“Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jentezen Franklin from Aug 12, 2014

“It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible”

“With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.”

“The universe evolves in consciousness of itself and causes itself to be. We are just this blessed consciousness, nothing more and nothing less. We are the light inside light that fuses into the atoms of our bodies; we are the fire that whirls across the stellar deeps and dances all things into being.”