"self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness."

“Seurat and Signac mixed paintings with the dry and abstract laws of science. This approach, in my opinion, usually strays from the purpose of art in general. Because it means that one cannot expect from an artifact, that is created with mathematical laws, to establish an improbable and irrational relationship between the work and the viewer.”

Source : Negin magazine, No 77, p. 57, 1971.

“Man is many things, but he is not rational.”

“Who that man in the black Sedan With two cheap hookers and a Mexican Pumpin' white lines, sippin' warm Coors Light Mickey Avalon, call me Mr. Right”

Source : Song: Mr. Right, Album: Mickey Avalon, 2006

“We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet, the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt. It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-confidence.”

“We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.”

Source : Chris Hedges (2014). “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”, p.52, Nation Books

“The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.”

“I don't know if the police of naming statements would agree with this.”

“Happiness comes from growing what thrives, not merely survives.”