"When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you."

“What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.”

“I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured effect.”

“The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.”

Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

“Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.”

“The generations before you failed. They didn’t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life is a miracle every moment of your existence. Nature beckons you to be on her side. You couldn’t ask for a better boss. The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful. This is your century. Take it and run as if your life depends on it.”

Source : Paul Hawken's Commencement Address at University of Portland in Portland, Oregon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.

“I figured that when there's no way of knowing what the future holds it's just as easy to believe it'll be good as to believe it'll be bad.”

Source : Jean Ferris (2009). “Twice Upon a Marigold”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.”

“How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!”