"The only difference between a winner and a loser is character."

“Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.”

“The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death”

“When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.”

“There's been a lot of study of the demographics this year that could decide this election [2016] and a lot of money being spent targeting voters who could tip the vote.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

“I don't want to be king, I want to be real.”

“Animals are not just other species. They are other nations. And we murder them at our peril. The peace map is drawn on a menu. Peace is not just the absence of war. It is the presence of Justice. Justice must be blind to race, color, religion or species. If she is not blind, she will be a weapon of terror.”

Source : "Philip Wollen, Australian Philanthropist, Former VP of Citibank, Makes Blazing Animal Rights Speech". Philip Wollen's speech at the St James Ethics Centre and the Wheeler Centre debate in Australia, freefromharm.org. May 16, 2012.

“A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.”

“But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?”