"Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy."

“I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing - one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.”

Source : LEW WALLACE (1906). “AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY”

“Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.”

“A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.”

“In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.”

“It is what you choose not to observe in your life that controls your life.”

Source : Lynn V. Andrews (2007). “Jaguar Woman”, p.21, Penguin

“It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.”

“I have never been afraid to tackle tough or controversial issues, but I have always done it with the intent to do what I was elected to do, and that is represent the interests of my constituents, the working people of Hawaii. I feel that we are facing some of the most difficult issues in recent history with regard to food security, a widening income gap, and the rapidly increasing rise of the cost of living in our State. I know that the office of Lieutenant Governor can do more to address these issues.”

“Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.”