"To carry on war, three things are necessary: money, money, and yet more money."

“Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.”

“I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.”

Source : Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1138, Penguin

“Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. A futon. A bed. But I never did. If I let him inside I would become him, the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up. The slogan on the side of a moving company truck read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING PLACES--modified by a vandal or a disgruntled employee to read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING DOWN. If I went to the drowning man the drowning man would pull me under. I couldn't be his life raft.”

“Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.”

“There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.”

“Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.”

“My first job was in a Bohemian polka band, the Rejcek family polka band in Abbott. The old man in the band had another blacksmith shop in Abbott, but he liked me. All he had was horns and drums, and I was set up over there with my little guitar with no amps or nothing. I would play as loud as I wanted to, and nobody could hear me.”

“The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position.”

Source : William Rathbone Greg (1851). “The creed of Christendom: its foundations and superstructure”, p.98