"Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers."

“Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.”

“Hey, listen. I don’t care what you punks do around the universe, but this is my sword, and anywhere it can reach is my country. Bastards who come in and try to mess with my things... whether it be a shogun, whether it be space pirates, whether it be a meteorite... I’ll destroy them!”

Source : "Fictional character: Gintoki Sakata". Anime series "Gin Tama" (Episode 13: "If you're going to cosplay, do it with all your heart!", 2006), www.imdb.com. (2005 - ).

“Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.”

“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”

“You know, trust in the press, polls show - from Pew and other places - have gone down significantly over the years. Maybe the press doesn't have that much ability to frame people's decisions.”

Source : "What Is - Or Should Be - Media's Role In Donald Trump's Rise?". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 2, 2016.

“Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.”

Source : Elizabeth Goudge (1948). “Pilgrim's Inn”

“It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year.”