"My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others."

“War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.”

Source : "The Great War for Civilization". Book by Robert Fisk, 2005.

“Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.”

“Beetee is still messing round the tree, doing I don't know what. At one point he snaps off a sliver of bark, joins us, and throws it against the force field. It bounces back and lands on the ground, glowing. In a few moments it returns to its original color. "Well, that explains a lot," says Beetee. I look at Peeta and can't help biting my lip to keep from laughing since it explains absolutely nothing to anyone but Beetee.”

“I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection.”

“These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.”

“As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview With Yo Yo Ma on the Spirituality of Music". Interview with Laurence Vittes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2012.

“When you feel betrayed by someone that you trust the most, as an actor, you look for something that's going to let you express some of your inner emotions and anger.”

“They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.”