"No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves."

“State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development”

Source : John Warren Kindt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (1996). “U.S. National security and the strategic economic base: the business-economic impacts of the legalization of gambling activities”

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that we are unique. The greatest discovery of the next generation, I pray, is that we are one.”

“There are two kinds of directors in the theater. Those who think they are God and those who are certain of it.”

“Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste for all extremism. Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.”

“Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.”

“If you are an enemy to your own mind, other people have to become enemies too, sooner or later. Until you understand, until you can love the thoughts that appear in your mind, then you can love the rest of us. You work with the projector -the mind - not the projected world. I can't really love you until I question the mind that thinks it sees you outside itself . . .”

“Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.”

“Same sex marriage must be decided by the states, and by the people in the states, not by judges and not even by legislators, but by the people themselves.”