"We live in a world of entertainment in full color with a lot of fast action, a world in which many children grow up thinking that if it isn't fun, it is boring and not worthwhile. Even in family activities we need to strike a balance between play and work."

“People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.”

Source : Gregory Benford (1997). “Foundation's Fear”, Harper Prism

“I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life.”

“From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena to his own advantage, and in the long search he has scraped together a great hoard of such maxims, some of them golden and some of them mere dross. The true or golden rules constitute the body of applied science which we call the arts; the false are magic.”

Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

“What is necessary is never a risk.”

Source : "Mémoires". Book by Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, 1718.

“A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant or necessary than they actually were.”

“If you give yourself permission to feel the pain and the joy, without attaching to either, then you can be happy or sad with an underlying peace that just makes everything feel like it's going to be OK.”

“Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The world we want: restoring citizenship in a fractured age”

“Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what violence is.”