"The Bible's message is that you matter to God. Our response is that God should matter to us."

“The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.”

Source : Paulette Jiles (2003). “Enemy Women”

“My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there's no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.”

“When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

“Is it strange for me to say that if I were to die today, there’s not a thing I would change? I’ve lived well. Maybe I have made mistakes and been through my fair share of pain but all in all, it’s been okay. I’ve lived well.”

“Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.”

“When confronted with information streaming from the eyes, the brain will interpret this information in the quickest and most efficient way possible. Time is energy. The longer the brain spends performing some calculation, the more energy it consumes. Considering the brain runs on about 40 watts of power (a lightbulb!), it doesn't have a lot of energy to spare.”

Source : Gregory Berns (2010). “Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently”, p.7, Harvard Business Press

“You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!”

“I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour.”