"When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death."

“Some people say vaulting is like riding a bike-but not for me. I have to put in a lot of days to feel confident in what I'm doing.”

“Coincidence is the language of the stars, for something to happen, so many forces have to be put into action.”

“A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord’s plan to give us challenges.”

“Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action.”

Source : Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.20, Vintage

“I love passion. I love for a coach to be passionate.”

“A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.”

“One-man-one-vote combined with "free entry" into government-democracy--implies that every person and his personal property comes within reach of-and is up for grabs by-everyone else: a "tragedy of the commons" is created.”

Source : Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2011). “DemocracyThe God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order”, p.96, Transaction Publishers

“Seven is a lucky number, so I plan to do a lot of lucky things with my seventh place title.”