"Portray your product as average and that's all that it will ever be."

“You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it.”

Source : Interview with Kristin McCracken, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.

“Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.”

“I believe people are inherently magical and good.”

“If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad… DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don't know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally scarred and spend many decades feeling frightened and unhappy. If you buy a captured wild parrot, you will promote a cruel and devastating practice, and the parrot will be emotionally scarred before you get it. Meeting that sad animal is not an agreeable surprise.”

“I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.”

Source : Washington Allston (1993). “The Correspondence of Washington Allston”, p.13, University Press of Kentucky

“Mind your own Brazilian!" The words fly out of my mouth before I can stop them. Oops. OK. The trick when you've said something embarrassing by mistake is to pretend nothing happened.”

“Putin is a despot, and he's a very good despot. And he will see things in a narrow way. What is good for Russia? That is what he will do. If that's represented by a move toward the Baltic, that would be very dangerous, but he would do it, on the assumption that he would ask himself the question: I am prepared to fight for Estonia. Is the United States? Is Germany? Is Britain, France?”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“My longest love affair: with a book.”