What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Albert Einstein

It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Barbara Kingsolver

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

Joseph Butler

George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go.

Mira Grant

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.

Han Suyin

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

John Barrymore

I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

Lynda Barry

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

Thom Mayne

It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.

Joseph Heller

A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.

Eleanor Robson Belmont, The Fabr

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.

Michael D. Higgins