"Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things."

“I had a very intense relationship with my father, who was always extremely interested in what we kids were doing. I actually think the secret of many successful women is having a father who encourages them.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

“My favorite decade of cinema would be kind of the '40s, yeah. I like things in the '30s, but you know, the sound recording in the '30s wasn't very good. But for some reason the movies in the '40s have the best personalities: Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, and all those people. For some reason, I seem to gravitate more toward the '40s, and I don't necessarily know why. I just love the people.”

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“Patience lives in the gap between our experience of an event and our response to that experience.”

Source : Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.33, Penguin

“Red hair stigmatizes you.”

“When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade”

“It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.”

Source : Frag. B 5, quoted by Proclus, "Commentary on the Parmenides", 708,

“The position of the planetary bodies at the moment of birth is a musical score done in planetary symbols of the heavenly harmonics and dissonances as these are played into the life of the incarnating ego.”

“Every moment of life is precious and can never happen again and therefore is a reason to appreciate, be grateful for and celebrate the fact that you are alive.”