Its tempting to say the Ph.D. didnt have an effect, but its not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way. – Robert B. Parker
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit. – Lewis Carroll
I know, to banish anger altogether from ones breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by Gods grace. – Mahatma Gandhi
I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows theres no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. Thats all crap. – Christopher Hitchens