"The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer."

“It's a dangerous dog that doesn't bark.”

“I'm not worried about repeating myself - I'm more worried that I'd just get bored.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“No person knows your body better than you. The world's most sophisticated and sensitive diagnostic apparatus is your own body's feelings.”

Source : "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.

“I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.”

“The goblins of the city may hold committees to divide a single potato, but the strong and the cruel still sit on the hill, and drink vodka, and wear black furs, and slurp borscht by the pail, like blood. Children may wear through their socks marching in righteous parades, but Papa never misses his wine with supper. Therefore, it is better to be strong and cruel than to be fair. At least, one eats better that way. And morality is more dependent on the state of one’s stomach than of one’s nation.”

“Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.”

Source : "Oksana Baiul: Online Interview". Interview, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

“Well, see, I think it's that most people don't like that lonely feeling. People don't like looking up and feeling small or lost. That's what I think prayer is all about. It doesn't matter which stories they believe in, they're all doing the same thing, kind of casting a line out to outer space, like there's something out there to connect to. It's like people make themselves part of something bigger that way, and maybe it makes them less afraid.”

“The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night.”

Source : Claude McKay (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.49, Courier Corporation