"Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything"

“An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.”

Source : Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.156, University of Chicago Press

“The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it.”

Source : "Glenn Gould Reader". Book by Glenn Gould, p. 5, 1984.

“It is always advisable to obtain a mantra from a self-realized master. Until then we may use one of the mantras of our beloved deity like 'Om Namah Shivaya', 'Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya', 'Om Namo Narayanaya', 'Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare, Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare', 'Om Shivashaktyaikya Rupinyai Namaha' or even the names of Christ, Allah or Buddha.”

“Any student of the New Testament eager to understand its Greco-Roman setting will profit greatly from this excellent book. I commend it highly for its up-to-date perspectives and usefulness. Jeffers writes with a breadth of expertise on the Greco-Roman world that few New Testament specialists can match.”

“So afraid of taking chances. How you gonna reach the top?”

“Fear is the touch of death, death reminding us of its existence.”

Source : Ivan Klíma, Paul Wilson (2006). “Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light”, p.110, Grove Press

“I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on my mind: 'What are you? Are you this or that? Are you a white dude or are you a black dude?' In a strange way, music and comedy is kind of the same thing. I'm both.They're just different modes of expression.”

“Order is the law of all intelligible existence.”