"The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives."

“Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture we lose the content, because those artists were part of an ancient tradition. Our tradition changes rapidly, our schools of thought come to fruition quickly and decay again. We see differently.”

“How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!”

Source : Address to the Annual Dinner of the Canadian Press, Toronto, April 18, 1956.

“Khaled Said was a young man just like me, and what happened to him could have happened to me,”

Source : Wael Ghonim (2012). “Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People is Greater Than the People in Power : a Memoir”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I call myself good crazy because I am a crazy normal. But who is normal really? Are you normal? Maybe you are, but I don't think a lot of us are normal. I think a lot of us are scared to say that we are a little crazy. I'm a little crazy that is just the way it is. I look in the mirror now and I like who is looking back at me. I am comfortable in my skin for the first time in my life. I have let a wall down.”

“For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma.”

“Joy is the wild card of life; it supersedes every other formula for success. If you can find a way to create joy, you can rise beyond all external factors. If you can play at whatever you are doing, you are the master of your life.”

“I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.”

“We speak loud. And we speak with our hands, but we're not aggressive like warwise. A Portuguese is not going to punch you for no reason.”

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