"Decade after decade, the police culture has been just the very opposite. And that`s been to ignore or to rally around. And that`s something that systematically we are going to need to break this blue wall of silence if we`re ever going to dramatically change and end the culture of police violence."

“Eat only when you are hungry. Drink only when you're thirsty. Sleep only when you're tired. Screw only when you're horny.”

Source : Al Neuharth (1992). “Confessions of an S.O.B.”, Signet

“I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.”

“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”

“In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.”

Source : "Ravi Shankar Dead: Indian Sitar Virtuoso Dies At 92". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2012.

“I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.”

“I never got into Linux. I swear to God, it's only lack of time. I'm past the years of my life where I can really dig into something like running a Linux system. I'm very sympathetic to the whole idea; Linux people always think the way I want to think.”

“I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere.”

Source : Rudy Rucker (2014). “The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality”, p.147, Courier Corporation

“Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine”

Source : Ursula Hegi (2011). “Ursula Hegi The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set: Floating in My Mother's Palm, Stones from the River, The Vision of Emma Blau. Children and Fire”, p.51, Simon and Schuster