"I have won every argument I ever had with myself."

“Obviously invidious and prejudicial stereotypes need to be deconstructed and overcome, but it's not that they can be destroyed. I think that would be an illusion to think that we can somehow get rid of these basic search templates that allow us to sort out our social lives and to sort out the material world as well.”

“More cuts were needed to avoid exiting the eurozone.”

“Very interestingly in a movement that I call now the hijab lobby, sadly promulgated by women that some of us refer to as Muslim mean girls and their friends, are trying to put out this meme that we are denying women their choice.”

Source : "The Case Against Wearing Hijab To Support Muslim Women". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. December 22, 2015.

“Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit, we cannot flower and grow without it.”

“I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.”

Source : Lyn Hejinian (2013). “My Life and My Life in the Nineties”, p.19, Wesleyan University Press

“When Benedict dies, he will have the pleasure of standing before whatever furious God he believes in, to answer for how it was that he knew for undeniable fact that one -- if not dozens -- of his priests repeatedly molested, abused and/or raped young children for decades, and he did nothing to stop it. How much does God believe the pope's argument that Vatican PR trumps pedophilia? Joe Ratzinger, 82, will soon find out.”

Source : "The end of the wicked old Mormons". www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2010.

“Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.”

“One cannot actualize his goals until he visualizes them clearly in the minds eye”

Source : Mike Mentzer, John Little (2002). “High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way”, Mcgraw-hill