"You only get back what you put in"

“In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.”

Source : David Brin (1999). “The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom?”, p.10, Basic Books

“Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.”

“I think we all have light and dark inside us.”

“Caleb," I say, "I love you." His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice.”

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.”

“I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.”

“Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile. Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.”

“I'm not Misbah, Mishah is not me”