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“I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life”
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“In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain number that cannot be reduced among them, and that one can define no further. These are the primitive ideas of the science; it is necessary to acquire them through experience, or through induction; it is impossible to explain them by deduction.”
Source : "The Mathematical Philosophy of Giuseppe Peano". Philosophy of Science Vol. 30, No. 3, July 1963.
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“It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.”
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“Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.”
Source : "After You: Letters of Love, and Loss, to a Husband and Father by Natascha McElhone" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2010.
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“There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able to create their own credit, or their own money, in response to their own needs. We still depended on banks, but it was a much more democratic process.”
Source : "Replace the Gospel of Money: An Interview With David Korten". Interview with Dean Paton, www.yesmagazine.org. February 20, 2015.
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“We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.”
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“I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'”
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“I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.”