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“People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.”
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“I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.”
Source : Mario Puzo (2012). “Fools Die”, p.444, Random House
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“Whatever you give out in life is what you receive back in life. Give positivity, you receive back positivity; give negativity, you receive back negativity.”
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“It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances, they may be dispensed with without disadvantage to the merely animal functions, but it is an error, certainly, to conclude from this that they may be altogether dispensed with in reference to their effects; and It is a question whether, if we had no tea and no coffee, the popular instinct would not seek for and discover the means of replacing them.”
Source : Isabella Beeton (2006). “Mrs Beeton's Household Management”, p.825, Wordsworth Editions
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“We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I think that's just sort of in our DNA. And so portraiture is a very human act.”
Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu
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“Would you be esteemed? Live with persons that are estimable.”
Source : "Essays on Friendship and Old-Age". Book by Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, translated by Eliza Ball Hayley, p. 57, 1780.
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“When companies start measuring success by clicks that doesn't compute to us, the only thing that computes to us is cash.”
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“I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.”
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“I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.”
Source : "So Many Weird Worlds: A Conversation with Ricky Jay" by Cole Louison, www.newyorker.com. May 19, 2011. 
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“In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it by systems of political and economic domination; but in the present age it softens the spiritual requirements that are an essential ingredient in human dignity. Thus the slogans of equality serve not so much to elevate individuals to the dignity of being human as to free them from the responsibility of rising to this vocation.”
Source : Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.49, Penn State Press
