"[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness."

-- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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“The discerning realize that it is not realistic to expect perfection in others when none of us is perfect...Meaningful progress can be made only when all of us can cast the motes out of our own eyes, leave judgment to our Father in Heaven, and lose ourselves in righteous living.”
“To pray is to change. This is a great grace. How good of God to provide a path whereby our lives can be taken over by love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control.”

Source : Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.6, Harper Collins
“Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.”
“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”
“Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and it'll kill you.”
“It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.”

Source : "The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.
“I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.”
“Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.”

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