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“No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.”
Source : Alistair MacLeod (2010). “The Lost Salt Gift of Blood”, p.150, New Canadian Library
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“Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy”
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“Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.”
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“I can't try to convert anybody. It's not in me to do that. But my faith has given me such an appreciation of people and meaningful relationships, and a world view which I didn't have before. And although I will fail every day, it gives me something to aspire to.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“The bottom line: Earth is not mediocre.”
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“Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.”
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“To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.”
Source : C. Wright Mills (2000). “C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings”, p.187, Univ of California Press
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“Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of the day.”
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“New Orleans is just a doggone fun place to be.”
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“When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.”
