"Man can only experience good or evil in this world; if God wishes to punish or reward he can only do so during the life of man. it is therefore here below that the just must prosper and the impious suffer."

“Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.”

“There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.”

“Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.”

Source : Doris McCarthy (2006). “Doris McCarthy: My Life”, p.9, Second Story Press

“Earlier today, the jury at the Martha Stewart trial reached a verdict. Martha was found guilty on all charges. In a related story, there's a huge sale at K-Mart.”

“Whoever is unwilling to help himself can be helped by no one.”

Source : Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1951). “The education of man, aphorisms”

“It is a myth that style can't be learnt. It's all about dressing for your body shape, following the rules and wearing colours that suit your skin tone.”

Source : "Mistresses of the makeover". Interview with Cathrin Schaer, www.nzherald.co.nz. February 19, 2008.

“I don't think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y'know what I mean?”

“There is a time for all things - except marriage, my dear.”