"The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when we draw healthy pleasure and confidence from our creative processes."

“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”

“When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?”

“It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa – it is your answers.”

Source : "Helen Suzman, Relentless Challenger of Apartheid System, Is Dead at 91" by John F. Burns, Alan Cowell, www.nytimes.com. January 1, 2009.

“How the false truths of the years of youth have passed!Have passed at full speed like trains which never stoppedThere where I stood and waited, hardly aware,How little I knew, or which of them was the oneTo mount and ride to hope or where true hope arrives.”

Source : Delmore Schwartz (1959). “Summer knowledge; new and selected poems, 1938-1958”

“Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.”

“Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.”

Source : Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.beliefnet.com. June 12, 2010.

“It is only through popular consultation and exchange with the people about social and economic policies that we were going to define the strategic direction of Cuba in the next years. To reach prosperous and sustainable socialism, which is our aspiration, we discussed that with the entire population.”

Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

“What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.”