"It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority."

“The door was locked and Alexia, resourceful as she was, had not yet learned to pick locks. Though she mentally added it to her list of useful skills she needed to acquire along with hand-to-hand combat and the recipe for pesto. If her life were to continue on its present track which after 26 years of obscurity, now seemed to mainly involve people trying to kill her, it would appear that acquiring a less savory skill set might be necessary. Although she supposed pesto making ought to be termed 'more savory'.”

“...decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying....”

Source : "Lost Star : The Search for Amelia Earhart". Book by Randall Brink, 1995.

“A lot of women in the summer nowadays are just a bunch of stuffed shorts.”

“Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years.”

“I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.”

“If the world is crazy, maybe it needs a few sane people in the middle of it. Why do monks lock themselves up in monasteries? What's the good of solving your personal suffering if the solution keeps you isolated from everyone else's suffering?”

Source : Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.47, Changemakers Books

“The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.”

“... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.”

Source : George Howe Colt (2006). “November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide”, p.220, Simon and Schuster