"My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs."

“I think sex is really about the self, and really a self-reflection.”

Source : "Margaret Cho Is Here, Queer, And Taking Questions About Anything". Interview with Ariane Lange, www.buzzfeed.com. January 21, 2015.

“You are in every line I have ever read.”

“The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.”

“One Chief Astronaut used to make a point of phoning the front desk at the clinic where applicants are sent for medical testing, to find out which ones treated the staff well-and which ones stood out in a bad way. The nurses and clinic staff have seen a whole lot of astronauts over the years, and they know what the wrong stuff looks like. A person with a superiority complex might unwittingly, right there in the waiting room, quash his or her chances of ever going to space.”

“A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.”

Source : Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.53, Vintage

“Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better”

“the time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment of the world when supply and demand are keyed exacty to each other's limits, and can be mated beatifically to grow old, or die young, together. But after that day -- !”

Source : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1911). “The Sick-a-bed Lady: And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-day, The Runaway Road, Something that Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of the City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business”

“The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.”

Source : Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.132