"And I believe that if 100 million people became embodiments of peace, the world would transform, because consciousness is a collective phenomenon. And what we see as good and evil is the balance between forces."

“I would like to do away with all kind of - all weapons. A dream - totally. Including the bow an arrow.”

“The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.”

“There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.”

“I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.”

Source : Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: The Darkest Powers Trilogy”, p.108, Penguin Group

“I liked movies so much that they became an obsession. I am still trying to kick the habit.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“hardly anything in L.A. was close to anywhere else you wanted to go.”

Source : Hilma Wolitzer (2013). “Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.14, Open Road Media

“If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often find the nonhuman to have superior capacities, both actual and potential, for rationality, self-consciousness, communication and anything else that can plausibly be considered morally significant.”

“There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion.”

Source : Donella Meadows (2008). “Thinking in Systems: A Primer”, p.97, Chelsea Green Publishing