"For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city."

“When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.”

Source : Frederick Franck (1993). “Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing: Meditation in Action”, Bantam

“Eid is not for the one who wears #new clothes. Eid is for the one whose obedience rises. Eid is not for the one with beautiful clothes and fine means of transport, Eid is for the one whose sins are forgiven.”

“Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.”

Source : Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.309, Delphi Classics

“before one actually visits them, everyone tends to think of their favorite countries as one grand Disneyland filled with national monuments and historical treasures conveniently laid out for easy viewing, when what they really are filled with, of course, is people going to work, laundromats and places to buy rat poison.”

“I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.”

Source : "Howard Stern and the Satellite Wars". Interview with Ana Marie Cox, www.wired.com. March 01, 2005.

“Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.”

Source : "Pioneers of Modern China: Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese". Book by Khoon Choy Lee, 2005.

“I grew up in the early '70s in New England.”

“The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.”