"Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values."

“Knowing that one may be subject to bias is one thing; being able to correct it is another.”

Source : Jon Elster (2015). “Explaining Social Behavior”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

“The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.”

“I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.”

Source : "Oren Peli: 'I'm not a nerd or a luddite, I'm a geek really'". Interview With Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

“Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad...”

“I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.”

“A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.”

Source : 1950 In Life,16 Oct.

“I like to do something I fear.”

“Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.”