Traveling, Swimming, Walking, Music, Dancing, Reading, Humor

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A novel" by Arundhati Roy, Exit West: A Novel" by Mohsin Hamid

Friends, Arrow, Better Things, Big Mouth

"Good teaching is one-forth preparation and three-fourths theater." - Gail Godwin

“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds." Percy Bysshe Shelley

""They need to give people something to do around here instead of shoot at and kill one another."- Anita Baker

"People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it." - Jasmine Guy

"Misa: I can't even imagine a world without Light...
L: Yes, it would be quite dark"- Death Note

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Andre Gide

“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.” Leo F. Buscaglia

"A Lecture: is the art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through 'the minds of either' ''

"A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled. All too often we are stuffing the heads of the young with the products of earlier innovations rather than teaching them to be innovative. We treat their minds as storehouses to be filled rather than as instruments to be used.' - Robert Finch

"what art thou but an ass" Note: Ass in the Middle age English meant donkey ;p

"the best marriage i can imagine to myself is the union of a deaf man to a blind woman"

"Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer"