"I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music."

-- Maya Angelou

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“We, as citizens or members of people's organisations, can preserve and nourish basic principles needed for long-term efforts aimed at transforming a totalitarian and war-torn society into a democratic one.”

Source : Katarina Kruhonja's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1998.
“Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.”
“But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?”
“As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.”
“Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end," he says. And the master replies, "What would you do with the other end?" This is answering an everyday matter in terms of the metaphysical. When the question is, "Master, what is the fundamental principle of Buddhism?" Then he replies, "There is enough breeze in this fan to keep me cool." That is answering the metaphysical in terms of the everyday, and that is, more or less, the principle zen works on. The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.”
“Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?”
“After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.”

Source : Foresight Institute Interview, www.foresight.org. June 15, 1987.
“No one can keep you down except yourself.”

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