"I marvel now that it was not obvious how inextricable suffering and fear are. It was not until fear left that I noticed, slowly, how it seemed to have taken suffering with it. It took a while to figure out that (for me, anyhow) suffering is mostly caused by fear-not by the circumstances themselves, but by my response to them."

“Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.”

Source : "Paul Samuelson's Words of Wisdom" by Larry Swedroe, www.cbsnews.com. December 17, 2009.

“The faithful are ever sustained by the presence of the Supreme Concourse. In the Supreme Concourse are Jesus, and Moses, and Elijah, and Bahá’u’lláh, and other supreme Souls: there, also, are the martyrs.”

“I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.”

Source : Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.24, Harmony

“If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.”

“The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without doing a damn thing for them.”

“There's going to be highs and there's going to be lows, try to keep your emotions out of it a little bit.”

“Paul Newman is simply not an actor and possibly not even alive; seems to be carved from wood, his movements stiff and jerky as a marionette, his one expression an agonized grimace as of wood trying to smile.”

Source : "On Movies".

“Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.”

Source : T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.57, Psychology Press