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“There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics and economic protection (...). The countries of Europe are not strong enough individually to be able to guarantee prosperity and social development for their peoples. The States of Europe must therefore form a federation or a European entity that would make them into a common economic unit.”
Source : Speech to the French National Liberation Committee, August 5, 1943.
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“High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth. Of all our planet's activities - geological movements, the reproduction and decay of biota, and even the disruptive propensities of certain species (elephants and humans come to mind) - no force is greater than the hydrologic cycle.”
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“A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.”
Source : Amish Tripathi (2012). “The Immortals of Meluha: The Shiva Trilogy”, p.78, Hachette UK
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“People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.”
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“The process of growth is, it seems, the art of falling down. Growth is measured by the gentleness and awareness with which we once again pick ourselves up, the lightness with which we dust ourselves off, the openness with which we continue and take the next unknown step, beyond our edge, beyond our holding, into the remarkable mystery of being.”
Source : Stephen Levine (1984). “Meetings at the edge: dialogues with the grieving and the dying, the healing and the healed”, Anchor Books
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“If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.”
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“We're good at noticing sudden movements of middle size objects in our immediate visual field, but what is out of sight is for us is largely out of mind.”
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“All my life I have been a nomad.”
