"Children are harmed more by our apathy than our error."

“It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred to [the likes of Senators Brownback and Obama] that they bear a worse stigma than any AIDS patient, being almost universally regarded as blowhards, crooks, dopes, and fools.”

“A drone strike is a terror weapon, we don't talk about it that way. It is; just imagine you are walking down the street and you don't know whether in 5 minutes there is going to be an explosion across the street from some place up in the sky that you can't see. Somebody will be killed, and whoever is around will be killed, maybe you'll be injured if you're there. That is a terror weapon. It terrorizes villages, regions, huge areas. It's the most massive terror campaign going on by a long shot.”

“Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].”

“Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.”

“Make it look like your skin is not so angry at you for your bad life choices.”

“I am not a passenger in anything I do.”

Source : "Derek Fisher, Champion Point Guard and Face of the Players Union" by Richard Sandomir, www.nytimes.com. October 17, 2011.

“I am of use to the younger artists through the advice and criticism which I give them.”

“I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me.”

Source : Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1850). “Poems of Alice and Phoebe Carey ...”, p.140