"Honest people have no ethics"

“In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.”

“Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as well make peace with the landlord.”

“The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He can find the quality of happiness in the strain and travail only of achievement and growth. And he is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment which his life-urges demand when his is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.”

“It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.”

“In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.”

Source : Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor

“Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.”

“Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.”

“When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.”