"It's easy to get anonymous people to hate you. Have an opinion. Be creative. Be yourself."

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”

“Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.”

“Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's heart.”

Source : Nash Buckingham (1936). “Mark Right!: Tales of Shooting & Fishing”

“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”

Source : W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

“The other night I was walking down the stairs behind one of my daughters. I was tired, and she was goofing around, you know like kids do, doing all this stupid stuff on the stairs. And I was thinking, please just go down the stairs and let's get you to bed. It's after your bedtime. I've had enough for one day. And then I sort of caught myself. I snapped out of it. I was like, 'dude, you should be dancing down the stairs behind her'!”

“If the ministers of the Church have often permitted nations to revolt for Heaven's cause, they never allowed them to revolt against real evils or known violencess. It is from Heaven that the chains have come to fetter the minds of mortals.”

“When there's light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there's no light at all it just looks dead. If you look at light as godly meaning, the world comes alive in a certain way.”

Source : "Babylon calling". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

“The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.”