European smoker at a restaurant: "Do you have an ass tray?"

Gotta love accents.

Satyagraha is not passive resistance or weakness, but direct action, the purpose being to confront an opponent with the demand that he make a choice. It assumes the oppressor can change over to your way of thinking. You too learn, by examining your own motives, whether they are worthwhile or not. It ends in mutual liberation.

- M J B, Ganesh

I find that for Asians and for the middle-aged-upwards, a calm mind is essential to happiness. It's the mask of well-being.

What makes more sense:

Love is how you spend your time
or
Time is how you spend your love

?

"It's true that men - they respond to beauty... it doesn't end for them, this... concern with beauty as a physical actuality in the world - and that's clearly imprisoning and it infantilizes... but it's true... "

- ZS

Don't worry about being interesting. Be interested.

"Hello" comes from an abbreviated Hungarian phrase, which approximately means can you hear me? The assistant of Alexander Graham Bell used to say it - he was Hungarian.

Transactional listening - what is he saying?

Real listening - where is he coming from?

We sleep 20% less than we did 100 years ago.

"I love her but I love karate more"

- Masutatsu Oyama (founder of Kyokushin) in Karate Bullfighter

Permit me to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket.

- Jack Sparrow

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

- Anais Nin

Here's another one on aging:

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel

It's not what you pour in, it's what you plant.

"I have no time for insights."

- RMW, first year NYC lawyer

"Sometimes my rings turn, encircling my fingers and, for a brief moment, I believe I feel your fingers moving them . . ."

- KLM

Decades of escapism in Bollywood films has quite possibly obliterated the desire for realism. Too often I see song numbers that have one singer, but TWO actors lip-synching (together or alternately). Doesn't it raise eyebrows that the two actors have EXACTLY the same voice when they are singing? I guess people don't care.

"The Irish have always been victims of negative stereotypes... so now people think we're all drunks and brawlers.... and sometimes that gets you so mad... all you wanna do is get drunk and punch somebody!"

- adapted from a friend's away message

"Why didn't you talk to Annie?"

"...."

Desire has such a mysterious nature.

"May the wind always be at your back, the sun upon your face, and may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars."

- from Blow