"There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude."

“I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.”

Source : "Bale pantomime pushes English football into the wings" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2013.

“When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.”

“If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.”

Source : "Matt Gonzalez taking his run for mayor in stride / He wants to apply ethics to politics" by Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. October 22, 2003.

“Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.”

“So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.' 'Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.”

“Who is an authentic seeker, but someone who has understood that there is nothing else to do but practice? Enthusiastic or discouraged, he or she continues, no matter what.”

“If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?”

“Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.”