"My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation."

“When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.”

“It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?”

Source : Jeff Vandermeer (2007). “City of Saints and Madmen”, p.261, Spectra

“How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!”

“We say that to 'give up all evil and to develop the good' is the heart of the Buddha's teaching. If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain. Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.”

“Never hurry and never worry!”

“Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.”

“There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films you can see that he has a wicked sense of humour, and I love that!”

Source : "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.

“Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary.”

Source : Steven E. Landsburg (2012). “The Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday Life”, p.19, Simon and Schuster