"Trust your instincts, trust your judgment."

“This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, more wholeheartedness.”

Source : "What Is Art? Favorite Famous Definitions, from Antiquity to Today" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. June 22, 2012.

“There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.”

Source : "Revealed: Brown's furious response to Blair after PM reneged on his promises to quit last year" by Melissa Kite, Sunday Telegraph, p. 1, January 9, 2005.

“Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.”

“The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.”

Source : Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.47, Hackett Publishing

“The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.”

“Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’—I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry n’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build—why, I’ll be there.”

“Cop families have guns in their houses.”

“When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.”