"Something is happening. I sense a change in the wind…a mutual understanding of each other. I haven’t felt this way in forever."

“There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.”

Source : Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.183, Penguin

“Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.”

“All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned.”

“It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.”

“My mother never asked me to do anything she wouldn't do herself. She always taught by example.”

Source : "Marie Osmond will never get over son's suicide, cried when daughter said she was gay". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. April 4, 2013.

“The next time your core beliefs are challenged - try being curious instead of furious.”

“The only way you can make a deal is if you're ready to blow it.”

“No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.”