"If the body can respond so decisively to music, it must in some sense be music."

“Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.”

“We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one of them was impossible. Let's take the next impossible, do it with joy and get it finished with and create a world free from poverty. Let us create the world of our choice.”

“A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.”

“You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.”

Source : "Alison Jackson On Obama, Assange And Why 'Reality' Doesn't Really Matter". Interview with Sam Parker, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. October 26, 2012.

“A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn't worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts.”

“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.”

“I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.”

“If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.”