"I drift not because it is a quicker way around a corner, but it is the most exciting way..."

“There is always something to celebrate, so long as life is being lived.”

“Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.”

“The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are made to meet market demands, they reflect, emphasize and even exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions. The motion picture avails itself only of ideas and facts which are in vogue. As the newspaper seeks to purvey news, it seeks to purvey entertainment.”

Source : Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

“The Morrigan’s ideas of sport and mine varied widely. As a Chooser of the Slain, she tends to enjoy nothing so much as a protracted war. She hangs out with Kali and the Valkyries and they have a death goddesses’ night out on the battlefield.”

“Americans are responsible not only for really starting a lot of things in a lot of countries, but also for giving people the confidence to do things they might never have thought to do.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent the comforting vocabulary of the place I came from hometown voices saying more than the language itself can convey about how welcome and safe I am what the expectations are and where to find food. Buddhist words come from another dialect from the people over the mountain. I've become pretty fluent in Buddhist it helps me to see my home country differently but it will never be speech I can feel completely at home in.”

“Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.”

“The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.”