"One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure."

“One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.”

“Maybe vagueness has been good for me. The word means two different things in Tokyo and Osaka, you know. In Tokyo it means stupidity, but in Osaka they talk about vagueness in a painting and in a game of Go.”

Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2015). “The Master of Go”, p.87, Random House

“Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.”

“Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

“Great potential for personal empowerment can be found in attending to our awareness of global problems and to our understanding of how they connect with each other and with our personal lives. The process of naming the danger, saying aloud that the threats to life on earth are real, moves us from the numbness of denial to the aliveness that makes action possible.”

“Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.”

Source : Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.302, University of Chicago Press

“I've read all the books, I've watched all the films and now, thanks to the glory of home gaming, I've even kind of experienced it: I've landed on the beaches of Normandy, I have successfully held Pegasus Bridge and I've disabled German tanks with stolen Panzerfausts. I have fought in Italy, France and North Africa and if I had a Euro for every virtual life I've lost I'd be able to build a replica of Hitler's bunker in my back garden.”

“Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports.”