"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum."

-- Havelock Ellis

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“Even though the money is great and the fame is great, you still have a lot of disenfranchised young men that are participating in the NFL that are not very happy. A lot of them are very bitter. A lot them are very angry. So many of them have had no fathers and no home life, and basically, no education.”

Source : "Q&A with Jim Brown". Interview with Charles Robinson, www.yahoo.com. November 30, 2006.
“We can never know the impact a simple smile has on another. Smiling is one of the easiest things we can do. Is there a simpler, more effortless way to give everyone you meet a moment of joy, even a sense of worth?”
“It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men.”
“All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.”
“This human need for mysticism â€“ surrender to an unknown truth, union â€“ stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence, the same intimacy known in a motherâ€™s arms; in those who are deprived of the experience, the need freezes and, distorted, it can rent a life. All addiction has as its foundation skewed yearning for the same transcendence. For me, the spell of the material was broken by my brotherâ€™s death; after his suicide, all I wanted was the renewal of my connection to the intangible.”
“It's not the truth that you know, but the truth that you obey that matters.”
“Many of us know more about the workings of our car than we do the reproductive cycle.”
“The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.”

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