"the more you live the more things reflect all around you!!!!"

“Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.”

Source : Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.12, Open Road Media

“As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves.”

Source : "Fictional character: The Doctor". TV Series "Doctor Who", (1.3, "The Edge of Destruction"), 8 February - 15 February, 1964.

“America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they were the original boat people.”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

“Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens is to have a continued presence on earth, humankind will reevaluate its sense of place in the world and modify its strong species-centric stewardship of the planet. Our collective concepts of morality and ethics have a direct impact on our species' ultimate fate.”

“The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.”

“I'm Irish and very proud of being Irish, but as an actor, your extraction should be secondary, really. You should be able to embody whatever character it is, wherever the character comes from. That's always been important, for me. I'm an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor.”

“Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.”

“O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.”