"These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius."

-- Michael Cunningham

#Kindness Quotes #Believe Quotes #Tired Quotes

“When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can't stop him. In our culture we don't have formal rights of passage like in some ancient cultures. Subjecting yourself to risk... may be something you have to go through to be a man or a woman.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Sep 30, 2011
“I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.”
“I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.”
“I'd much rather have the consumer buy a Wii, some accessories, and a ton of games, vs. buying any of my competitor's products.”

Source : "Nintendo hopes Wii spells wiinner". Interview with Byron Acohido, usatoday30.usatoday.com. August 15, 2006.
“I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!”
“If you believe, so will they.”
“If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.”

Source : "Interview with Lou Ferrigno, Two-Time Mr. Universe and TVs "The Hulk"". Interview with Paul Dybala, www.audiologyonline.com. April 3, 2006.
“Whatever arises from a just situation by just steps is itself just.”

Source : Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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