"When the Chinese suspect someone of being a potential troublemaker, they always resort to one of two methods: they crush him, or they hoist him on a pedestal."

“Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.”

Source : Janet Poppendieck (1999). “Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement”, p.231, Penguin

“My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.”

“Why can't we resist the urge to second-guess and evaluate each other?...Sometimes I wonder if the final judgment will be a breeze compared with what we've put each other through here on earth. p 225”

“People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.”

“But the absence of him is everywhere I look. It's like a huge hole has been punched through my chest.”

“Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.”

Source : Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

“I love you for putting your hand into my heaped up heart and passing over all the frivolous and weak things that you cannot help seeing there, and for drawing out into the light all the beautiful and radiant things that no one else had looked quite far enough to find.”

“I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.”

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