"The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness."

“I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.”

Source : "Helen Thomas 'Retires' After Anti-Israeli Jew Remarks". "The Two-way", www.npr.org. June 7, 2010.

“The correct answer is the University Titans, the West Valley Eagles, the Central Valley Bears, the East Valley Knights, the Riverside Rams. The fact you don't even know an answer to the question like [naming all the Spokane Valley High School Mascots] means you don't even know the district. How can you represent the district if you don't even know it?”

“Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.”

“Most of the time, people are not actually concerned with prostitution and sex work. They're concerned about seeing people who they think are prostitutes and sex workers in their community. Sometimes this just comes down to profiling, the feeling of "I don't want someone who looks like that in my neighborhood." We need communities and neighbors to regard sex workers as part of the community and fellow neighbors. But that's really difficult. There's certainly nothing supporting that.”

“The life I live is my art work.”

Source : Interview with David Morris, www.askmen.com.

“All I know is a door into the dark”

Source : Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.437, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

“Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.”

“By the time I was 14, I was about six foot. I remember going into auditions, and they'd look at how tall I was and say, 'Well, you're taller than the lead actor, so there's no way we can cast you.”