"Some of the worst things in my life never even happened."

-- Mark Twain

“To me, an airplane is a great place to diet.”
“When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.”
“Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.”
“I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.”
“To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.”
“Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.”
“When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.”

Source : Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish, Joanna Faber (2012). “How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
“Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty-but no welcome. Below was a welcoming planet. There, contained in the thin, moving, incredibly fragile shell of the biosphere is everything that is dear to you, all the human drama and comedy. That's where life is; that's were all the good stuff is.”

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