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“He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.”
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“The mother of the imbecile is always pregnant,”
Source : "Vincenzo Nibali escapes public grilling on drugs in Tour de France" by William Fotheringham, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2014. 
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“It is not possible to control all external events; But, if I simply control my mind what need is there to control other things?”
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“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”
Source : Freya Stark (2011). “The Lycian Shore”, p.27, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
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“If they liked you, they didn't applaud -- they let you live.”
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“In the zero-sum budget game, every dollar spent on this problem [illegal immigration] must be taken from somewhere else....No, we should not tolerate people immigrating illegally. But we need to treat this issue honestly and fairly.”
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“Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of social and indistinct expression that we refer to as rhubarb. The very particular volume in which people tell each other their news seems to generate all by itself that acoustic chiaroscuro, a sounding murk, in which every communication seems to lose its edges, truth projects the shadow of a lie, and a statement seems to resemble its opposite.”
Source : Joseph Roth (2002). “What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand.”
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“California has a beautiful coastline. It can be a rough coastline. The waves are huge. The rocks are steep. Same thing in Vancouver. It has a beautiful coastline. It's dramatic.”
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“Intention appears to be something akin to a tuning fork, causing the tuning forks of other things in the universe to resonate at the same frequency”
Source : FaceBook post by Lynne McTaggart from Apr 11, 2014
