"Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better."

“The mind is the enemy of intuition, according to many New Age adherents, but I don't buy that. I look at everything in terms of polarities - two ends of the same continuum. Young/old, male/female, individuality/conformity, work/play, freedom/constraint, right/left, day/night, life/death, rational/emotional, and so on.”

“I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.”

Source : Roger Kahn (2000). “Good Enough to Dream”, p.84, U of Nebraska Press

“When we try to focus our thought upon One who is pure uncreated being we may see nothing at all, for He dwelleth in light that no man can approach unto. Only by faith and love are we able to glimpse Him as He passes by our shelter in the cleft of the rock.”

“All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.”

Source : "All Things Bright and Beautiful" (hymn) (1848)

“A person who complains that his children don´t treat him well, should recall how he brought them up.”

“It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before the horse. They are teaching purity of motives, desires, and actions to old, deceitful hearts! No wonder we have ended up such moral failures, in spite of our vaunted knowledge and psychological approaches.”

“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”

“Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing its thoughts in oral form. More than any other single invention writing has transformed human consciousness.”

Source : Walter J. Ong (2013). “Orality and Literacy”, p.77, Routledge