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“I remember someone once saying, "Pete, you know you really should take voice lessons." And I said, "Well, if I could find any voice teacher that could teach me to sing like Lead Belly I'd spend every cent to study under him." But every time you'd go to a voice teacher, he'd teach you to warble, as if you'd want to be an opera singer, and that's not what I'm interested in.”
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“When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.”
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“People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.”
Source : "The Politics of Food: How U.S. Farm Policy Impacts People Worldwide" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2011. 
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“The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.”
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“If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.”
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“Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.”
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“Why, when the world gets to understand about it I expect that two men or two women, or a man and a woman, will come in here, and say to me, 'We have quarrelled and outraged each other, we have injured our friend, our wife, our husband; we regret, we would forgive, but we cannot, because we remember. Put between us the atonement of forgetfulness, that we may love each other as of old.”
Source : "Dr. Heidenhoff's Process". Book by Edward Bellamy. Chapter 11, 1880.
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“Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good.”
Source : "The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking". Book by Oliver Burkeman, www.newyorker.com. 2012.
