"The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors."

“Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to the interest of pontiffs, priests, and augurs, as much as it is to the interest of lawyers and doctors that there should be lawsuits and sickness. No wonder they took care that the people should not grow slack in their religion.”

“Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.”

Source : Attributed to Karl E. Weick in Subrah S. Iyar "Why Buy the Cow" (p. 21), 2007.

“What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?”

“Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.”

Source : Gregory Corso, Bill Morgan (2003). “An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso”, p.303, New Directions Publishing

“This (Paris,France) wouldn't be a bad place, but it's full of Frenchmen.”

“The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect.”

“Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance together, it suggests, however indirectly, high and noble principles of action, and it inspires the emotion so helpful in making principles operative.”

“Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price!”