"A vice is a failure of desire"

“I'm sure you get the best out of people if you look for the best in them. People don't need to be told when they've done something wrong - they know it without having to be told.”

Source : "Richard Branson: Interview With ORIGIN Magazine" by Maranda Pleasant and Gina G. Murdock, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

“Be close tot he poor, the needy, to touch in their flesh the flesh of Jesus. Be close, please”

“We make my opponent out as a monster. We focus on his strengths because that's what we need to negate.”

“It's nice to keep in touch - besides, it's the only place in London where you can park a car.”

“Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular.”

Source : Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

“After I got out of the military, I was going to college and doing everything I was supposed to do, but I was completely numb of any emotions. I remember telling my mom, "I don't want to be like this, for the rest of my life." The military enabled me to turn off my emotions, for obvious reasons. That's why we have so many guys coming back who are going through so much. They just can't reconnect.”

“New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,...”

“The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.”