"I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing."

“I suggest that just as self-consciousness is the goal for all the subhuman forms of life, and as group consciousness, or the consciousness of the Heavenly Man, is the goal for the human being, so for him, also, there may be a goal, and for him the achievement may be the development of God consciousness.”

Source : Alice A Bailey (2010). “The Consciousness of the Atom”, p.36, Lucis Publishing Companies

“When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.”

“No matter who you are, how much money you make, or what kind of clothes you are wearing, CrossFit will force you to come face-to-face with your imperfections”

“To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.”

“One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.”

“Each year we pump at least six billion tons of heat-trapping carbon into the innermost layer of our atmosphere, whose outer extent is only about twelve miles overhead. According to an IPCC (United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report released this year, atmospheric CO2 will, if the buildup is left unchecked, double from its pre-industrial level within the next century. That doubling of CO2 correlates with an increase in the global temperature of at least three to eight degrees Fahrenheit. The last ice age was just five to nine degrees colder than our current climate.”

“The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.”

Source : August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

“I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.”

Source : Letter to Sir Horace Mann, December 31, 1769.