"We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation."

“You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting or lying with your legs curled up, your hand groping in the bowl, but you can see different worlds, far-off worlds that maybe never existed but still seem real. You run or sail or race in a sleigh--you're running away from someone, or you yourself have decided to attack--your heart thumps, life flies by, and it's wondrous: you can live as many different lives as there are books to read.”

Source : Tatyana Tolstaya (2016). “The Slynx”, p.127, New York Review of Books

“Most of us have very clear memories of the self-critical internal conversation running on in our heads while we were playing poorly, and yet it often seems that we hardly remember noticing it at all while we were playing well.”

Source : W Timothy Gallwey, Barry Green (2015). “The Inner Game of Music”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

“Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.”

“I have no ambition. I just have a very loving duty given to me in my spiritual heritage of the Himalayan Masters who have passed down this duty from generation to generation, perhaps for thousands of generations: The world has misery, the world has suffering. Do what you can to reduce the pain. Do what you can to soothe people's minds. Don't just counsel, Mr. Therapist ... console.”

“Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.”

“The photograph suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation.”

Source : Andy Grundberg (1990). “Crisis of the real: writings on photography, 1974-1989”

“I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.”

“Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.”

Source : "Idle breaks" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2005.