"The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected."

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.”

“They look at me and say how come you're winning? You came back from the dead three years ago, and you're already killing it. I mean I came back from the dead. Thanks to my family and thanks to Kevin Zinger and my brother Evidence and Rocko, especially my blood family and the guys in Swollen Members. I wouldn't even be here today if it wasn't for those people.”

“Utility is the true criterion of beauty.”

“I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing”

“Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.”

Source : "The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind". Book by Huangbo and John Blofeld, p. 79, 1958.

“To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.”

“It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted ...”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.2376, Delphi Classics