"After the event, even a fool is wise."

“No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.”

“Count your blessings. Be grateful-- you're alive”

Source : Laurence Gonzales (2004). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.288, W. W. Norton & Company

“I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956.”

“The minute you say "I can't", it is another wrong affirmation to your subconscious that you choose to lose.”

“I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.”

Source : Arshile Gorky, Matthew Spender (2009). “Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents”

“Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.”

“It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after,you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and whats happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there- with your eyes open- and lived to see it.”

“Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence.”