"There are some men above grief and some men below it."

“Love and hate, black and white, Right or wrong, who is right? Some smoke joints to anoint their brain To the vanishing point...so they won't go insane.”

“The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate, will bring neither gain nor loss of utility.”

Source : 1871 The Theory of Political Economy.

“...the souls of the dead [are] not deprived of their intellectual faculties but... they also are not lacking in feelings such as hope and sadness, joy and fear. They already have a foretaste of what is in store for them after the general judgment. Nor does it happen, as some unbelievers would hold, that upon leaving this world they are turned to nothing. Actually they live more intensely and they concentrate more on the praises of God.”

“Fashion creates a bit of a dream”

“What's the real difference between Republicans and Democrats? Let me tell ya the real difference ... Republicans will always take on people in the interest of power and good democrats will never fear to take on the power in the interests of people.”

“Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.”

“I feel most spiritual when I am listening to a soprano voice soaring to the top of its range at the most dramatic point of an aria. It feels like a geyser shooting up from the center of the earth and reaching for the stars.”

Source : "China Forbes, Lead singer of Pink Martini: Always Growing". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

“Little friends may prove great friends.”