"To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength and inspiration to carry on the best human impulses which should bind us together for a better world."

“Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.”

Source : Jim Holt (2012). “Why Does the World Exist?: One Man's Quest for the Big Answer”, p.269, Profile Books

“Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.”

“He put my fingertips to his mouth and kissed them. Licked the trace of blood away. Made them clean. Then I knew the truth I had been denying. He made me clean. Dan made me clean and shining and bright. He made me beautiful, and I did not want to lose him.”

“Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.”

Source : Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2012). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.39, Courier Corporation

“Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chris Tomlin from Feb 01, 2014

“Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.”

“At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.”

“... they always tell us it's getting to the top that's hard. Climbing's the easy part. Sliding down the other side, that's the hard part.”

Source : Susan Dunlap (1995). “High Fall”, Dell Publishing Company