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“The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.”
Source : Commencement Address at Rice University in Houston, May 14, 2011.
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“We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is good in diversity.”
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“The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to become scarce. When they do, competition for what remains will trigger dramatic economic and geopolitical events; in the end, it may be impossible for even a single nation to sustain industrialism as we have know it in the twentieth century.”
Source : Richard Heinberg (2003). “The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies”, New Society Pub
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“One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.”
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“There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.”
Source : "Let’s Face It: There Is No Such Thing as Humane Meat" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013. 
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“The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of the majority, with force, threats, and intimidation being the order of the day. Today's federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. ... [The War] also laid to rest the great principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that 'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed'.”
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“Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.”
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“Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so insensible.”
Source : Samuel Rogers (1856). “Poetical works”, p.221
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“Even if kids don't love gymnastics, if they start at any age with some classes, they can learn so many different things - they can build a lot of character, strength, flexibility, and courage. Hopefully, they can also develop a sense of fearlessness.”
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“To me, an untrained ear, a young person at the time, I would hear off the different feels, all these different sounds, and then years later realize that everyone had used the same equipment, just to their own ends.”
Source : "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.
