"There is no true life within a false life."

“From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.”

“We have to choose to slow down, to actually see the time and space that we are in. To truly see people and accept them in their priceless moments.”

“If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.”

“The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.”

“I saw this wino, he was eating grapes. I was like, "Dude, you have to wait".”

Source : Live album: "Mitch All Together". Track 3 "Not Track Five, Not Chainsaw Juggler", December 9, 2003.

“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”

“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”

“The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.”

Source : "Unity of the European Union is about to be tested" by Barry Eichengreen, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.