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May we remember, as we log on, that half the world’s people have never used a telephone, and recall, as we chatter, that most of those around us have no chance to speak or move as they choose. May we recall that more than half a million beings live without food, and that as many children live amidst poverty and war.

Pico Iyer

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

John Berger

The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else.

Lawrence Kushner

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls, and they say, “Because it’s such a beautiful animal.” There you go. Well, I think my mother’s attractive, but I have photographs of her.

Ellen DeGeneres

Man is the only animal who has to be encouraged to live.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.

Mary Ellen Kelly

We have so many words for states of mind, and so few for the states of the body.

Jeanne Moreau

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us, and call that handful of sand the world.

Robert Pirsig

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child’s soul through the dirt.

George Bernard Shaw

The toughest part of being on a diet is shutting up about it.

Gerland Nachman