"In America we're in this awful situation, and you know, I hardly get any royalties anymore because music is just stolen from the internet."

“One of us... One of them... One of us... One of them... A rhythm playing like train wheels on a circular track -- never ending but going nowhere.”

“You will never stop wanting more until you allow yourself to have what you already have. To take it in. Savor it. Now is a good time to do that . . .”

Source : FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Jun 13, 2012

“I suspect I'm the only politician in America who won an election in this last cycle with TV ads saying I was going to try to pass the first single-payer system in America.”

Source : Interview with Ezra Klein, www.goodreads.com. February 10, 2011.

“Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.”

“Another factor is the post-9/11 security mentality, which views sunlight as toxic and imagines that somehow bin Laden is dependent upon our government documents, a "fact" that has never, ever been supported to my knowledge. So, that's the second factor.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

“Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.”

“What's less well known is that the CIA's executive management staff is far more concerned with selecting the right candidates to serve as CIA officers than it is about selecting agents overseas. The CIA dedicates a huge portion of its budget figuring how to select, control, and manage its own work force. It begins with instilling blind obedience. Most CIA officers consider themselves to be soldiers. The CIA is set up as a military organization with a sacred chain of command that cannot be violated. Somebody tells you what to do, and you salute and do it. Or you're out.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

“I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of chess and other events can seem quite unimportant in comparison with a catastrophe on the chessboard.”