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“You can’t bite your nose off to spite your face.”
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“To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.”
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“Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.”
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“Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.”
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“I feel as if they are somewhere between movement and stillness, and thus in possession of a certain energy.”
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“Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains”
Source : Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “Lord Foul's Bane”, p.103, Del Rey
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“The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.”
Source : "Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School". Book by Ted Sizer, p. 95, 1984.
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“Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.”
Source : "Portrait of the artist: Mira Nair, film director". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2009. 
