"Enormous forces are affecting the world, and we can't possibly overestimate their importance. These include demographic developments, climate change, digitalization and the rise of Asia. And then there's the most important one: the end of a life lived on credit. We must finally free ourselves from debt."

“I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.”

“They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.”

“We are very excited with the roster of skaters that are coming. It's the first time New Jersey has been awarded an event of this caliber in the skating world. It's definitely important to the area because we hear all the time that there are not enough major sporting events in South Jersey. It's a great opportunity to have such an event.”

“The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.”

Source : Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.463, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

“I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.”

“Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.”

“The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible in this area, is it also possible in the vexed and sordid realm of race relations?”

“When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.”

Source : Clarence Day (1928). “Thoughts without words”