"You will find that free advice about your money is always available. It's usually those who lean back and give you the most 'positive' advice whose finances are bordering on catastrophe. They are often wrong, but never in doubt."

“A man who correctly guesses a woman`s age may be smart, but he's not very bright.”

“Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.”

“A whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it...a cheese-trap.”

“Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?”

“Whenever I hear someone describe something as a 'kids movie' or a 'family movie,' it immediately has a negative connotation in my mind because I think, 'Well, as an adult, I wouldn't go see it by myself, because it's purely for children and it holds nothing for me and it's simplistic and it's kind of easy.”

“A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.”

Source : "Twister" by D. T. Max, www.newyorker.com. March 16, 2009.

“The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.”

“In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.”

Source : "Naoto Kan: 'Japan has lost its vigor'". www.cnn.com. November 17, 2010.