"I have always had deep concerns about anyone's philosophy being imposed on the entire community."

“Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.”

“Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.”

“Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.”

“I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.”

“There are these very poor communities on the outskirts of Cairo called Mokattam, where a lot of the garbage collectors live. I used to volunteer there, doing health and education work when I was younger and living in Egypt.”

“No one can figure out your worth but you.”

Source : Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket

“I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem.”

Source : "The Animated Life of Antonio Banderas". Interview with Meg Grant, www.aarp.org. November, 2011.

“In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.”