"Everything in life is a risk! I mean, you walk out onto the street and it's a risk! Don't you think?"

“To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.”

“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”

“Success is the difference between where you are and where you could be”

“Too often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence.”

Source : "I enjoy the freedom of being single - but should I be looking for a partner?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2013.

“the reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer ...”

Source : Mary Astor (1968). “A Place Called Saturday”

“Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.”

“A man asked Muhammad what was the mark whereby he might know the reality of his faith. Muhammad said, 'If thou derive pleasure from the good which thou hast performed and thou be grieved for the evil which thou hast committed, thou art a true believer.' The man said. 'In what doth a fault really consist' Muhammad said, 'when action pricketh thy conscience, forsake it.'”

“Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.”

Source : Bayard Rustin (1971). “Down the line”, Quadrangle-New York Times Book Co.