"Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized."

“Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.”

“Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.”

Source : Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2 - Hardcover: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.104, Christian Fellowship Publishers

“You are most certainly the inspiration for all of today's rock 'n' roll guitarists. Your music is timeless.”

“The government businesses, they all operate in the Tasmanian economy and as the economy strengthens the demand for services in those areas strengthens.”

“Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.”

“Many say our world is at a tipping point. If we do not act together, if we do not act responsibly, if we do not act now, we risk slipping into a cycle of poverty, degradation, and despair.”

“Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.”

Source : Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.307, University of Chicago Press

“I originally welcomed the mobile phone, as it seemed to me that it would enable you to work from anywhere. On the mobile, who was to know if you were sitting on the branch of a tree or sitting in an office? But it instead had the opposite effect: instead of freeing us from the office, it allowed the office to take away our freedom.”