"Efforts depend on individuals, but results rely on mere conditions."

“When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.”

“Avedon wouldn't let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did.”

“Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

“Why do we 'drive' on a 'parkway' but 'park' at a 'strip club'?”

“It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.”

“She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She enters dreams. She vanishes and is still there. She knows the future and sees through flesh. She is not afraid of anything.”

Source : Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber

“If you find your feet dragging, check your path. You are probably on the wrong one.”

Source : Philip Toshio Sudo (2013). “Zen Guitar”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

“I think when you know what you are going to wear, it fits and it's great material, then you feel confident in it.”