"When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually."

“In America we've spent over a billion dollars on autism research. What have we got for that? We've not seen anything that's appreciably impacted the quality of life of autistic people, regardless of their place on the spectrum. Quite frankly, we've spent $1bn figuring out how to make mice autistic and we'll spend another $1bn figuring out how to make them not autistic. And that's not what the average person wakes up in the morning aspiring to. They think: am I going to be able to find a job, to communicate, to live independently, either on my own or with support? Those are the real priorities.”

Source : "Andrew Wakefield: autism inc" by Alex Hannaford, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2013.

“Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.”

Source : Ralph Chaplin, Ben Hur Lampman, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Dept. of Research and Education (1971). “The Centralia case: three views of the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, Novemeber 11, 1919: The Centralia conspiracy”, Da Capo Pr

“Every great movement and which the conservative movement is, of course, every great movement ends up being a little bit sclerotic and dusty after a time and I think they need new fusion of energy.”

“In God we trust, everybody else bring data to the table.”

“Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant”

“Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend.”

Source : "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

“I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.”

“In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go to California.”