"People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel."

“When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. Ill do something else.”

“It is possible to state as a general principle that the mesodermic phagocytes, which originally (as in the sponges of our days) acted as digestive cells, retained their role to absorb the dead or weakened parts of the organism as much as different foreign intruders.”

“Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.”

“There are big bad wolves all over the world who tremble at the sound of his name, yet a little puny coyote girl peanut-buttered the seat of Bran Cornick’s car because he told her that she should wear a dress to perform for the pack.”

“This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.”

“Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.”

Source : Bernie Glassman, Taizan Maezumi (2016). “The Hazy Moon of Enlightenment: Part of the On Zen Practice collection”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

“Many people have fond memories of 'The Monkees.' I fondly remember it, too.”

“There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.”