"I appreciate all that I am and all that I have. Stop focusing on what you do not have, and shift your consciousness to an appreciation for all that you are and all that you do have."

“I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.”

“Death does determine life.”

Source : Oswald Stack, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1969). “Pasolini on Pasolini: interviews with Oswald Stack”

“Such figures as Boy George do not disturb me nearly so much as do those relentlessly hetero (sexual?) keepers of the keys and seals, those who know what the world needs in the way of order and who are ready and willing to supply that order.”

“I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.”

“The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.”

Source : Interview with Richard Quest, www.cnn.com. July 12, 2004.

“Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.”

Source : Zoë Akins (1923). “Déclassée: Daddy's gone a-hunting; and Greatness - a comedy ...”

“Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.”

Source : "Old Divides Plague Bosnia" by Christine Spolar, articles.chicagotribune.com. May 14, 2007.

“I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.”