"If one is not happy, one has lost the very purpose of life..."

“In recent years a new International System has been developing, oriented toward the establishment of norms and principles of universal jurisdiction, above national sovereignty, in the areas of what is called the New Agenda...we have to confront ..... what I dare to call the Anglo-Saxon prejudice against the establishment of supra-national organizations.”

“Dogs, for a reason that can only be described as divine, have the ability to forgive, let go of the past, and live each day joyously. It's something the rest of us strive for.”

“I get fit taking my bike out in the woods.”

Source : Interview with Jim White, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2002.

“Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.”

“You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.”

Source : Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.86, Penguin

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

Source : Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.100, Macmillan

“I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me”

“I believe it's a shoulder thing that goes up...”