"I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored."

“I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.”

“If you annoy the Hog-nosed Snake enough, he will roll over on his back and play dead. If you turn him right-side up , he will roll over to prove that he is dead. [Footnote:] While he is playing dead, you can go straight up to him and step on his head or smash him with a big club.”

“Watch your thoughts. Every thought accepted as true is sent by your brain to your solar plexus - your abdominal brain - and is brought into your world as a reality.”

Source : Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D. (2011). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Unlock the Secrets Within”, p.80, Penguin

“As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the tasks of building a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa, a people-centred society free of hunger, poverty, disease and inequality, as well as Africa’s renaissance, to whose attainment President Nelson Mandela dedicated his whole life?”

“I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.”

“...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent.... They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.... The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].”

“Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to do; those (the unhappiest) who never knew what their purpose in life was; and those who found out later on. I was in the last category, I reckoned, which didn't stop me wishing I'd been born into the first.”

Source : Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Buddha of Suburbia”, p.90, Faber & Faber

“Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous”