"An open mind isn't the same thing as an empty head."

“People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional.”

“Your belief systems limit your reality to a sub-set of the solution space that does not contain the answer.”

Source : Thomas Campbell (2003). “My Big Toe: Book 2 : Discovery”, p.336, Lightning Strike Books

“Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.”

“The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.”

“The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.”

Source : Henry Handel Richardson (2008). “Maurice Guest”, p.18, Sydney University Press

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”

“People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.”

“I am almost a real girl the entire drive home. I went to a diner. I drank hot chocolate and ate french fries. Talked to a guy for a while. Laughed a couple of times. A little like ice-skating for the first time, wobbly, but I did it.”