"The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants."

“Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.”

“For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.”

“I was walking around trying to act cool, like I had no fear at all. But I was afraid, afraid that somebody would find out just how scared I was. Now I'm finally realizing that fear is the opposite of love.”

“No problem is too big to run away from.”

“It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't,”

Source : "Doyen of American critics turns his back on the 'nasty, stupid' world of modern art". Interview with Edward Helmore and Paul Gallagher, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2012.

“Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.”

Source : Richard De Bury (2006). “The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of R”, p.94, Cosimo, Inc.

“Whenever I think of this attack, my stomach turns over.”

“Our actions are guaranteed to affect others. Because we are not alone in this world, much of our learning about ourselves comes from our interaction with others. Our relationships are our teachers. We learn from each other.”

Source : Dr. Tae Yun Kim (2011). “Seven Steps to Inner Power”, p.47, Jung SuWon