"Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I."

-- Alexis de Tocqueville

“When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.”

Source : "Mourinho reveals Wenger dossier". news.bbc.co.uk. November 2, 2005.
“I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss out on. And I ask what's going on, and I have to ask to be included. But I'm not going to be sad about it. I don't live in sad isolation. It's just a situation I'm used to.”
“Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.”

Source : "Gracie goes to schooner school" by Tom Robbins, www.seattlepi.com. May 24, 2007.
“I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.”
“I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.”
“There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.”
“From within, from the very most interior center of existence and consciousness, the fact of oneness evermore proves to be the overriding truth.”

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