"A warrior cannot lower his head - otherwise he loses sight of the horizon of his dreams."

“I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place.”

“It's not about the fish; it's not about the pollution; it's not about the climate change. It's about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world that is different from the selfish world we live in today.”

Source : "How we wrecked the ocean". TED conference, www.ted.com. April 2010.

“Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water bathes us at birth and again at death, and in between it washes away sin. It is by turns the elixir of life or the renewing rain or the devastating flood.”

Source : Scott Russell Sanders (1997). “Writing from the Center”, p.142, Indiana University Press

“Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.”

Source : Lauren F. Winner (2002). “Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life”, p.58, Algonquin Books

“Right now at this very moment we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.”

“Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture any object you own as it would be if that object were your child. All possessions come with responsibilities. More possessions equals greater responsibility.”

“Rick Tocchet is what I call a warrior. He really brings a lot to a team because he really believes in team play. He's tough on himself and he's tough on the team. As a coach, if you had even one guy like him on your team, you'd have a heckuva chance to do your job well.”

“Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us to do something about it! The second will be taken away first, followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms.”