"Her best friend was gone and nobody understood that no amount of makeup, fresh air or shopping was going to fill the hole in her heart."

“But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the whole being for the moment. No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open, completely themselves when that message hits the brain and the laugh begins. That's when new ideas can be implanted. If a new idea slips in at that moment, it has a chance to grow.”

Source : Source: logger.believermag.com

“I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.”

“The price of clothes may be low, but they are paid for with human lives,”

“In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.”

“He treated me like a son and I let him down. I must take some responsibility for him getting the sack. I regret letting him down so much.”

“I really like world music. I used to think it was simple but it's far from that.”

“The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392

“Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.”

Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial