"I think the truth is, we are all racist, really, when it comes down to it. I think all of us have to check ourselves from time to time, and say, 'Look, that sort of attitude isn't good enough.' It takes discipline to keep our prejudices out."

“God, it was hot! Forget about frying an egg on the sidewalk; this kind of heat would fry an egg inside the chicken.”

Source : Rachel Caine (2011). “Chill Factor”, p.9, Allison & Busby

“there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive - for no one knows what wisdom lies concealed in silence!”

“It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had.”

“I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds.”

“Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.”

Source : J. Maarten Troost (2006). “Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu”, p.229, Broadway Books

“Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings.”

“Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.”

Source : John Naisbitt (1988). “Re-Inventing the Corporation”, Random House Value Publishing

“A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.”