"... real pity should stretch out to people whom we do not like -- to those whom we have injured or who despitefully use us."

“We cannot allow some people to be left at the back of the human rights bus... We must ensure the rights of individual groups or people -be they indigenous peoples, or peoples of Asian or African or American descent, or Jews or Muslims- are not sacrificed on an altar of progress for some while there are setbacks to others.”

“I know I will die with either a camera in hand or a woman on top – what more could one ask of life?”

Source : "Christopher Doyle Calls 'Life Of Pi' A 'Fucking Insult To Cinematography,' Hates On 'Lincoln' & More". Interview with Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. March 14, 2013.

“Overall, going to the moon is a daunting project because of the amount of fuel it takes to send a payload from Earth,”

“The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round the next bend. The rest comes in the isolation from distractions, in the slowing of the daily centrifugal forces that keep us off balance.”

Source : David Douglas (1987). “Wilderness sojourn: notes in the desert silence”, Harper San Francisco

“Hug your children...Kiss your mothers and fathers, your brothers and sisters. Tell them how much you love them, every day. Because every day is the last day. Every light casts a shadow. And only the gods know when the darkness will find us.”

“There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.”

“Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.”

“You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs.”