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“Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.”
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“It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.”
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“While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.”
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“Look at me! I'm big! I'm strong! I'm a superior example of froghood and capable of protecting us both!”
Source : E. D. Baker (2010). “The Frog Princess”, p.39, A&C Black
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“Rule Number One is this: If you’re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if you’re defensive, if you stubbornly persist in being right instead of learning the lesson at hand, if you stop paying attention to the tickles, the nudges, the clues—boom! Sledgehammer.”
Source : Gay Hendricks, Tinker Lindsay (2012). “The First Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery”, p.7, Hay House, Inc
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“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.”
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“When you're going over periods of your life, you remember certain things, certain events, certain people that you've forgotten. You've forgotten certain lessons or people you were very close to, and then you haven't seen them in a while. I think if you can go through life with the correct regrets, then looking back on it, like I did, a certain portion of my life is pretty enjoyable. All my regrets are ones that I'd like to keep.”
Source : "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. May 7, 2012. 
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“Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.”
