"I love traditional instruments, though of course they are anachronisms. Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons. It's ridiculous!"

“It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.”

“Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.”

Source : "Fictional character: Maurice J. Minnifield". TV Series "Northern Exposure" ("The Big Kiss", 1991), 1990-1995.

“The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.”

“A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.”

Source : "Nobel Laureates, 1901-2000". Book by Alan Symons (p.1), 2000.

“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”

“Extraterrestri als are living now on Earth. They are everywhere, among your friends, neighbors, even your relatives. Their blood flows through our veins. We are as much brothers and sisters to beings from the stars as we are to animals of the Earth.”

“How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.”

Source : Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.411, Vintage Canada

“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.”