"Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence and solemnity, maybe more sacred. Laughter is like a prayer, like a bridge over which creatures tiptoe to meet each other. Laughter is like mercy; it heals. When you can laugh at yourself, you are free."

“Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.”

Source : Eknath Easwaran “The Compassionate Universe: The Power of the Individual to Heal the Environment”, Nilgiri Press

“We trust the bully much better than we trust the underdog. Maybe it's in our nature, but it is so that all around the world there is this certain type that can succeed in politics and it's people who are - alpha types.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like Bramah, mechanics like Murdoch and George Stephenson, or smiths like Newcomen and Maudslay.”

“Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.”

“Today, if you don’t understand the controller, you’re not able to enjoy video games. … We expect the Revolution [Wii] controller to become the standard in video game controls.”

“I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.”

“If you're defending a lie, you can only defend it with obfuscations and other lies. You can't defend a lie with the truth.”