"Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe."

“Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are.”

“I'm just one of the 1.3 billion Chinese.”

Source : "Yao plays down hero status", www.cnn.com. September 6, 2003.

“When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.”

“Instead of asking yourself what everyone else's opinion is going to be and how your action will be perceived by others, ask yourself, 'How do I want my life to be lived?' Then proceed to take a small risk in the direction of that new action.”

“As you warm to the ideas expressed in Total Recall, you find yourself reaching for your digital camera to record the moment just gone by.”

“I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.”

“I believe it is crucial to consider the degree to which one woman's possession of reproductive choice may actually depend on or deepen another woman's reproductive vulnerability.”

Source : Rickie Solinger (2002). “Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States”, p.7, Macmillan

“Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.”

Source : "Memory's Future". Interview with William Calvin, www.psychologytoday.com. March 1, 2001.