"Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara."

“At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.”

“Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.”

Source : Roger A. Caras (1993). “A Dog Is Listening: The Way Some of Our Closest Friends View Us”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“I love Downton Abbey. It's just great. My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.”

“Whoever attacks a matter without knowledge cuts off his own nose.”

“It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.”

“For the problem of decision-making in our complicated world is not how to get the problem simple enough so that we can all understand it; the problem is how to get our thinking about the problem as complex as humanly possible--and thus approach (we can never match) the complexity of the real world around us.”

Source : Harlan Cleveland (1966). “The obligations of power: American diplomacy in the search for peace”

“Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love. Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry. Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage. We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: "Who am I?" "Why am I?" "Where am I going?" - and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.”

“Service is not something we endure on this earth so we can earn the right to live in the celestial kingdom. Service is the very fiber of which an exalted life in the celestial kingdom is made.”