"There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you."

-- Yoshida Kenko

“I've met some real talents that were...real talents and I've met some real talents that were incredible people.People like Al Williamson, Gray Morrow, to a certain extent Jim Steranko, who is an institution all to himself. What a talent. What a genius talent.”
“If home cooks shopped in their own vegetable bin before going to the market, they would save money and help the environment, too, and all because they decided to rescue a vegetable before it turned bad.”

Source : "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.
“Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.”
“I am a very outspoken person, and if something makes me uncomfortable, you will know that it makes me uncomfortable, but that's as far as it goes.”
“You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything. Things that used to upset me no longer do.”
“Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.”

Source : "CNN Larry King LIve", transcripts.cnn.com. March 9, 2010.
“The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.”
“For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.”

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