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“Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.”
Source : David Steindl-Rast (1984). “Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness”, p.4, Paulist Press
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“truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.”
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“Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.”
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“Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.”
Source : Gary Stanley Becker, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace (1996). “The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture”, p.5, Hoover Press
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“I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.”
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“For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.”
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“All I remember about the examination is that there was a question on Sturm's theorem about equations, which I could not do then and cannot do now.”
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“It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.”
