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“When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.”
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“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
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“I'm at the age where I don't need an acid trip to feel naked... to feel that I don't exist. Now a self-portrait is almost a reminder to me that I do exist.”
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“I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism”
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“It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.”
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“Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.”
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“People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.”
Source : "Blanka Vlasic mixes mischief with medals as she aims for clean sweep". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2010. 
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“During the whole funding process they said, 'We're interested in you guys because of your management team; we think you're fantastic...' Two weeks later they pull me into the office - before even the first board meeting - and say, 'We want to replace you as CEO.'”
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“I've got a problem with my legs, they just can't walk past a chippy.”
Source : "Blue Moon Rising Over Sin City as Friends and Followers Flock to Local Hero" by John Rawling, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2007.
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“We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting is that even in merciless death, a futile death that knows neither flower nor fruit has dignity as the death of a human being. If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile.”
Source : Yukio Mishima (1977). “The Way of the Samurai: Yukio Mishima on Hagakure in Modern Life”, Basic Books (AZ)
