"The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems."

“I find myself now preaching about the golden age of manned spaceflight, because something went on there, within us, that we’re missing. When we went to the Moon, it was not only just standing on a new plateau for all mankind. We changed the way everybody in the world thought of themselves, you know. It was a change that went on inside of us. And we’re losing that.”

“Prove it. I'll measure your words against your actions, and from that I will determine your worth.”

Source : Jackie Morse Kessler (2011). “Rage”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“The physician heals, Nature makes well.”

“Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years,”

Source : "Journalist Geraldo Rivera". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. February 23, 2015.

“I never really write the jokes. I just sit down over a week or two and try to figure out what I want to talk about. Once I narrow that down, then I start working on the material, like "How do I make this stuff funny?"”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“If an alien visitor were to hover a few hundred yards above the planet, it could be forgiven for thinking that cars were the dominant life form, and that human beings were a kind of ambulatory fuel cell: injected when the car wished to move off, and ejected when they were spent.”

“Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.”

Source : Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.37, Anchor

“Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song of the wind flutes that had filled their caves with music he could not possibly remember. It felt like home.”