"Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform."

“I never thought I would go into the dance charts.”

“Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.”

“The mall is good for hearing new music because you hear music everywhere. I like to walk around the mall and hear what the kids are listening to, or what's the feel of Middle America, cause that's what the mall is.”

“My brothers and my sisters, do always persevere in true and earnest prayer, and the Lord will hear you. Believe that the highest revelations of science are conformable to the doctrine of the efficacy of prayer; that in this doctrine the highest philosophy harmonizes with the purest devotion.”

Source : Sermon at Hackney Unitarian Church, London, April 24, 1870.

“Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2014). “Miss Marjoribanks”, p.430, The Floating Press

“I was a 21-year-old kid back then and I had my whole career in front of me. We were so close to reaching the World Cup and then we all woke up the next morning to realize our dreams had been dashed.”

“To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress.”

“Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.”

Source : "Anti-Whaling Warrior, Captain Paul Watson". Interview with Jess Root, www.treehugger.com. November 5, 2008.