"No diety will save us; we must save ourselves."

“What I need is to believe in myself again— for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.”

Source : Letter to a nephew, February 9, 1893.

“Stop and smell the garlic! That's all you have to do.”

“No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.”

“Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.”

“What are you, Zen Master Fang?”

“We are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.” -”

“You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race - when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it's all over the world in seconds.”

Source : "Mark Webber: I'm ready to have another bloody good crack at it". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2011.

“My relationship to New York has changed a lot. I feel lucky to live here. A lot of times you walk through the city and don't notice that you're in a really beautiful neighborhood, or that you're passing a beautiful building. It's nice, as an exercise, to keep aware that you're in a really lucky place.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com