"Brilliant minds make errors, brave souls falter, kind hearts leave scars. We are none of us perfect, but we're all perfectly human."

“As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger.”

Source : "Paul Scofield, British Actor, Dies at 86" by Benedict Nightingale, www.nytimes.com. March 21, 2008.

“How easily we ignore or forget the small kindnesses and considerations in life which are really the only everyday magic we witness on a regular basis. Just think- to make happiness out of nothing more than a few kind words or a generous gesture.”

“The woman who died night after night and her dying was a long goodbye, a train that never left.”

“A nation is born into freedom on the day when such a people, moulded into a nation by a process of cultural evolution and sense of oneness born of common struggle and suffering, announces to the world that it asserts its natural right to liberty and is ready to defend it with blood, life, and honor.”

Source : Diosdado Macapagal (1968). “A Stone for the Edifice: Memoirs of a President”

“Years ago, I thought that if a person had experienced injustice in her life, it meant she would be fair, because she would know what it meant to be a victim of injustice. But now I am not so sure. Experiencing injustice can also make a person dangerous. Carrying a sense of revenge and anger can make a person victimize their own self.”

“Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.”

“There is no effective difference between guessing a variable that is not random, but for which information is partial or deficient (...), and a random one (...). In this sense, guessing (what I don't know, but what someone else may know) and predicting (what has not taken place yet) are the same thing.”

“My body is a reflection of how grateful I am for my life and my health; there are a lot of people less fortunate than me.”