"A successful dinner is one that lasts a while and one where everyone leaves happy. It's a meal where we didn't just wolf food down, rather something else happened at the table. That is the goal."

“If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy.”

Source : Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.53, Kodansha International

“I know that being positive is a choice, and I try to make that choice every day.”

“Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.”

“If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.”

“For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.”

“I was horrified. Absolutely heart sick. All I could think of was that after 23 years together, I'd lost my faithful ally. I couldn't sleep, couldn't get the loss out of my mind. It was like discovering that someone in my family had died.”

“Many activists just see what's wrong: they want to stand up to injustice and educate people about it. But I think it's equally important for activists to hold a more positive vision of what's right with their country: what's going well, and what they'd like to grow or see more of. I also like to encourage activists to take some time each day to sit silently or take a walk in nature as a way to be in touch with their inner wisdom and peace - and to remember why they are on this path in the first place.”

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“Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.”

Source : Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.292, Harper Collins