"I never really understood fashion as a career. For me, it was really a state of mind, more like something that I always had in my life."

“Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e  le  phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a'   terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.”

“Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.”

Source : "Ongoingness: The End of a Diary". Book by Sarah Manguso, March 03, 2015.

“A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?”

“Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of necessity, they observe with a preconceived idea, and when they devise an experiment, they can see, in its results,only a confirmation of their theory. In this way they distort observation and often neglect very important facts because they do not further their aim.”

Source : Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) Pt I, Ch. 2, Sect. III

“When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?”

Source : George Canning (1826). “Poetical Works ...: Comprising the Whole of the Satires, Odes, Songs, and Other Poems”, p.26

“[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion, 'til they impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language and freely speak the dictates of their hearts!”

“The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?”

“We old roosters must be cautious. Don't try to outwit your arteries.”