"If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse."

“Never give up. There is always hope, there is always life. You've just gotta open your heart to it. Live in love.”

“No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before; I have even heard he has sometimes loved after: but at the time never. There is something in the formalities of the matrimonial preparations that drive away all the little cupidons.”

Source : 'Camilla' (1796) bk. 6, ch. 10

“But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never be optimal but merely practical, applying rote responses to recurrent problems and employing a variety of contingency tactics to deal with unforeseen events.”

Source : Manuel De Landa (1997). “A thousand years of nonlinear history”, Zone Books (NY)

“I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.”

“I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.”

“Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.”

Source : Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.98, Cosimo, Inc.

“There's no reason to assume that my idea of what's better would really be better. I resent it when other people try to inflict their ideas of betterness on me. I don't think they know. And I can't see any authority on the horizon that's got any answers that seem worthwhile. Most of the things that are suggested are probably detrimental to your mental health.”

“Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.”

Source : Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.19, Pan Macmillan