"I've never been lucky. The day my ship came in, I was at the airport."

“You will go on blundering, for only he who does nothing avoids errors.”

Source : Janusz Korczak (1967). “Selected works of Janusz Korczak”

“A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.”

“If you want to get on in life get off your arse because it ain't going to come to you. And if it does come to you and you're not off your arse then you ain't going to keep it very long.”

Source : "Ray Winstone: What I've Learned" by Ben Mitchell, www.esquire.com. November 12, 2014.

“People need their history like they need air and food.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”

Source : Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

“There is no gift more great than love.”

“Blackmailers never explain their thinking. They're like pirates that way. Dark-hearted, dangerous--- and cool like Johnny Depp.”

“The greatest service we can provide to others in this life, beginning with those of our own family, is to bring them to Christ.”