"Modesty is the way you deal with beauty not the way you avoid it."

“Stand naked in front of the mirror and say, 'I'm f–king sexy.' That's where it starts.”

“When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.”

Source : "A Clockwork Orange". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1962.

“Honor in the Dust is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.”

“To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, docile under your gaze; from our side you have nothing more to fear; no acts of violence, no words of defiance, not even a look of judgment.”

“The Lazysphere - a working definition - is a group of bloggers who I won't name by name, but you can spot them a mile away. Rather than create new ideas or pen thoughtful essays, they simply glom on to the latest news with another "me too" blog post.”

“I'm at the age where i don't have to kiss arse or play nice!”

“The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.”

Source : Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.128, John Wiley & Sons

“Long time I been on my own, but now really I'm alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart.”