"The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood"

“Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?”

“All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.”

“Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.”

“From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship.”

Source : "PREGNANT FOUNDER'S RESPONSE TO VC: 'I've Never Heard Someone Say 'An Expectant Father/CEO Will Fail''" by lyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2011.

“Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.”

Source : Isabella Lucy Bird (2010). “Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Volume 1: An Account of Travels in the Interior, Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

“The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.”

“May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.”

Source : Carol Emshwiller (2013). “Carmen Dog”, p.78, Small Beer Press

“Like every human we have to categorize ourselves, so you kind of start to build a mythos 'cause I had no information about [ biological mother]. So you have to build a mythos around yourself. And so my mythos included me not being wanted or me being a wretched person, which is just great fertilizer for comedy.”