"I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play."

“Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is possible to interpret the information carried by a message as essentially the negative of its entropy, and the negative logarithm of its probability. That is, the more probable the message, the less information it gives. Cliches, for example, are less illuminating than great poems.”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.21, Da Capo Press

“This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.”

“Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.”

“In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.”

“I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth”

“We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.”

Source : "Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk".

“To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - Farewell”

Source : R. M. Ballantyne (2016). “The Coral Island: Illustrated”, p.239, Jester House Publishing

“I want truth. I'm crying out to hear it. I need it like oxygen.”