"I think one of the issues quite often, from a mental health perspective, that people find power behind a gun. Frequently, that is the issue behind most people. They feel a loss of power. They use a gun to sort of equalize things. And, of course, once the process begins, quite often people die in that process."

“The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.”

Source : Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.11, Vintage

“The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.”

“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”

Source : "It is Important to Have Black Faces on Dollars, but More Important to Get Dollars in Black Hands" by Dedrick Muhammad, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2016.

“Nature imitates mathematics.”

Source : Gian-Carlo Rota (2009). “Indiscrete Thoughts”, p.213, Springer Science & Business Media

“I know there is also the influence of television and being able to zap away so it is a weightier decision to go into the theater than it used to be. And probably attention spans are not as strong as they used to be, generally speaking.”

“The intellectual finds it reassuring to say that the businessman gets his money by luck; or monopoly, or exploitation, or dishonesty, or what have you. As a matter of fact, the truly dishonest man will last longer in college -teaching or the ministry than he will in the business world.”

“My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream.”

“I used to first go on to entertain an audience. But now I go, and this is really true - I go on to have fun with a crowd of my chums.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.