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“It would be a sign of great simplicity to think that the world was created in six days, or indeed at all in time; [...] Time is a thing posterior to the world. Therefore it would be correctly said that the world was not created in time, but that time had its existence in consequence of the world. For it is the motion of the heaven that has displayed the nature of time.”
Source : "Allegories of the Sacred Laws". Book I, §2. Translated by C. D. Yonge in "The works of Philo Judaeus", Vol. 1, pp. 52 - 53, 1854.
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“Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance.”
Source : Jean Liedloff (1975). “The continuum concept”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
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“As long as I can walk and talk, I'll try almost anything. I say "almost" because the high wire is definitely out.”
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“I was a VJ to begin with, so I had a good year of interviewing artists, but then I would spend half my time being interviewed about half my projects, and the other time, other people. It was good because it made me a better interviewer because I knew what people didn't like being asked, and what they enjoy being asked, so I am super used to it.”
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“I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.”
Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
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“I look at fitness as a necessity in the same way as how you drink water, eat food, one should look at fitness in a dedicated way. People will look fresh and happy. If you are happy you in a way look fit.”
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“Today China is a first world economy, in terms of development. The U.S. may still be in first in GDP but it is a broken economy in reality.”
Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015. 
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“I think I asphyxiated my children.”
