"Don't let your feelings be a God to you."

“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.”

Source : Jack Kerouac (1999). “Selected Letters, 1957-1969”, Viking Adult

“Those who take to guns could do so due to deprivation, suppression, or historical legacy. The Afghans have lived through violence for centuries, by the Mughals, the Russians, their own people, so they have always had to fight for freedom... we cannot take away the context. But they legitimised it by using jihad, a religious sanction, so they could be seen as mujahids, fighting for Allah. And you cannot say there is nothing concrete.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

“Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth.”

“I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it.”

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

“On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti.”

“Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his part to play in the human and divine drama - some persons just a few lines, others whole pages. To refuse to play one's role at all is not the answer. It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.”

Source : William Kurelek, Joan Murray (1983). “Kurelek's vision of Canada”, McClelland & Stewart

“It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.”

“A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.”