"New Zealanders are so chill. I know they say Australians are chill, and I feel like Australians are chill, but I keep thinking, "If they get drunk, they would commit a hate crime." Now that is an extreme position to take, but it's just a feeling I get. New Zealand people, I don't see that."

“After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus."”

“More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.”

“Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life... Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you've been born to do, now.”

Source : David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Edition”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

“In Bogotá, our goal was to make a city for all the children. The measure of a good city is one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can safely go anywhere. If a city is good for children, it will be good for everybody else. Over the last 80 years we have been making cities much more for cars' mobility than for children’s happiness.”

“After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.”

Source : "Irvin Kershner obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2010.

“Fue adondo a mi me perdieron quw logre por fin encontrarme? Was it where they lost me that I finally found myself?”

“Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations in a cycle of misery. Corruption must be vigorously addressed if aid is to make a real difference in freeing people from poverty.”

Source : "Corruption Still Rampant In 70 Countries, Says Corruption Perceptions Index 2005". www.transparency.org. October 18, 2005.

“I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase.”