"Health and education are always issues."

-- Helen Clark

“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.”
“A lot of things just aren't true any more.”
“People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution. For instance, in China, when people take everything into their own hands, then you cannot govern the place. ... [It] was the people taking power into their own hands. Now that is what you mean by democracy if you take it to the full swing.”

Source : "HK's Tsang Apologises for Gaffe". news.bbc.co.uk. October 13, 2007.
“Once renunciation and the awakened mind have been fully realized, the way to Buddhahood is clear. Liberation is complete and such liberated beings are then Bodhisattvas and Buddhas: "enlightened ones," or "empty dwellers." Their usefulness to others both before and after their physical death, is impossible to conceive. They are nothing but useful energy leading to liberation for all beings still caught in conditioned existence.”
“Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.”
“Every day I wake up, there's a little part of my brain that's thinking I might die in a terrorist attack today.”
“When you start photographing somebody, it's like a lustful relationship and there's all the excitement of new flesh.”
“I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop.”

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