"Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers."

“For "full" emotional communication, one person needs to allow his state of mind to be influenced by that of the other.”

Source : Daniel J. Siegel (2015). “The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are”, p.94, Guilford Publications

“I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself. But then on the other hand, the way I do my work, I always try to only completely focus on my work, so when I do my work I'm only interested in my character. So I don't have an idea of what it means for my career. So this is why I don't feel like I need to be discovered, because I feel like even without being discovered, I will be fine.”

“Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.”

“I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.”

“All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.”

“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”

“A lot of people, I think, would love to see the earth from above, wear a spacesuit. Certainly, when I was a kid, I wanted to wear a spacesuit.”

Source : "Julie Payette returns to space". Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. February 4, 2009.

“Truth is such a subjective thing.”