"If you're going to fail...FAIL FORWARD"

“Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.”

“Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.”

Source : "Getty's double life stuns Californian high society" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 1999.

“Citizens are not prepared for attacks because there is a bias against the public by nearly every expert and government official. In emergency preparedness, there is this belief that public will panic, that the public is not to be trusted, that there will be looting.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

“Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.”

Source : Tim Winton (2009). “Breath”, p.110, Pan Macmillan

“Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mischief than it can bring to pass; and, without doubt, of all passions which actually disturb the mind of man, it is most in our power to extinguish, at least, to suppress and correct, our anger.”

“hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”

Source : "Thoughts on various subjects (Further thoughts on various subjects)". Book by Jonathan Swift, 1745.

“Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.”

“If your ideas are bigger than the town you're in, you've got to get out of there.”