"I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others."

“If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.”

“Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.”

Source : Holly Lisle (2010). “The Silver Door”, p.175, Scholastic Inc.

“Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.146, Rowman & Littlefield

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”

“To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . . . .In the clear moonlight we were loath to go to bed,But at last drunkenness overtook us;And we laid ourselves down on the empty mountain,The earth for pillow, and the great heaven for coverlet”

Source : Li Po, “A Mountain Revelry”

“I wasn't born a superstar.”

“I believe the ones who stand up for what we say, which is stay inside the Eurozone, try to fix some things in the memorandum and try to help Greece get out of this mess without leaving the Eurozone, without leaving Europe.”

Source : Source: www.sbs.com.au

“When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.”