"Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear."

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”

“The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find that Buddha consciousness within and live out of that, instead of the interests of the eyes and ears.”

“Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.”

“To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.”

“If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant.”

“Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.”

Source : "Interview with Marion Ross, Mrs. Cunningham from Happy Days". Interview with Paul Dybala, www.audiologyonline.com. February 27, 2006.

“I always challenged men, you know, in foot races or whatever as a kid growing up, because it was a way of pushing myself and challenging myself against the best - but you have to know and accept that men are born with testosterone. You can beat them for so long, but eventually they’ll catch up.”

Source : "'It’s Hucking Yourself Downhill Super-Fast'". Interview with Ian Gordon, www.motherjones.com. December 30, 2013.

“Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.”

Source : "Hope Against Hope: A Memoir". Book by Nadezhda Mandelstam (Chapter 35), 1970.