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“Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.”
Source : "What I've Learned: Alex Trebek". Esquire, March 2003.
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“Ye lover of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, take my advice and visit the ancient town of Crieff.”
Source : William Topaz McGonagall, “Beautiful Crief”
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“There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.”
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“You go into flow when your highest strengths are deployed to meet the highest challenges that come your way.”
Source : Martin Seligman (2011). “Flourish”, p.37, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
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“It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any other class of Americans from the dubious blessings of Christianity.”
Source : Hubert Harrison, Jeffrey B. Perry (2001). “A Hubert Harrison Reader”, p.43, Wesleyan University Press
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“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.”
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“An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores, everything functions according to rituals that are as hard as rock from repetition, and at the same time they amble through their days as whimsically and casually as if the world ended at the horizon.”
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“Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there.”
