You know you work in a creative business when you're having a business dinner in Brazil and a country-CEO from the region sitting at your table says that the dessert (fried banana with vanilla ice cream) looks like "Michael Jackson's p****, black & white."

Life is like a roll of toilet paper.

The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

- unknown

Happiness tips for lawyers

Tip #1: Quit law.
Tip #2: Do what makes you happy.

- seen on abovethelaw.com

In Turkey the DUI punishment is that you are driven 12 miles out of town and forced to walk back.

Only When the last tree
Has been cut down
And the last river
Has dried to a trickle
Will man finally realise
That we cannot eat money
And reciting old proverbs
Makes you sound like a twat

- Banksy, “Wall And Piece”

Do you pirate media you already own? If so, is that unethical? For example, you bought a CD a long time ago, it's currently in a box at your parent's home, and you download a track.

This is a good discussion topic for law students.

If you purchase media in one format, is that a license to use it in any format?

Eating mostly vegetables, fruit and grains should become second nature. It's what we call the 'plate flip.' Meat shouldn't be the star of the plate.

- Registered dietitian Connie Guttersen

3% of Americans are vegetarian. 23% of consumers are eating more meatless entrées than they did a year ago. 40% of nonvegetarians say they sometimes order vegetarian or vegan menu items just because they sound good.

From http://www.rimag.com/article/452341-Menu_Trends_Meatless_Mains.php

Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate.

- Morihei Ueshiba

Being with and around locals and getting a sense of what they're like is as important as seeing/experiencing the major sites when travelling to a new place.

When it comes to being juiced, baseball players and wrestlers have nothing on cows.

U.S. Cattle producers have about 30 products at their disposal to beef up their beef. Some are estrogens, androgens and progestins, and according to a University of Minnesota study, these steroids contribute an additional 700 million pounds of beef per year. Poor cows. If only we all knew what the producers are doing to them.

Trashion: any wearable item or accessory that is constructed using all or part of materials that have been recycled, including clothing that has been thrifted and reconditioned.

We need to take a pair of wet jeans and beat him with it until it's dry.

- GC

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.

- John le Carre

On nostalgia -

"Once a things been done it's been done, so why all this nostalgia? I mean, for the 60's and 70's, you know, looking backwards for inspiration, copying the past. How's that rock and roll? Do something of your own. Start something new. Live your life now."

- John Lennon

"You should create your own icons and way of life, because nostalgia isn't glamorous. If I had one thing to say it would be, live your life now."

- Marilyn Monroe

At practice a new student said she couldn't figure out my accent and thought at times it sounded a bit Scottish. That's a first.

You know you've lived in the US a long time when you feel it's odd that people in Hong Kong are ordering orange juice with their DINNER (and hotels are charging over US$10 per glass). For me it's become a strictly breakfast/daytime beverage.

Better than bold statements are bold questions.

"How great life would be just to eat and sleep."

These are translated words from a t-shirt I saw in the Philippines. The sad thing is, a lot of people here think that. It's a perversion of the old-fashioned view that work is low and those with means would really want a life of leisure. I say perversion because 'leisure' encompasses so much more than eating and sleeping. The shirt promotes laziness as the ideal, which is bad. It's meant to be a joke but here in the Philippines the work ethic is already weak.

4 people are born every minute in the Philippines, a Catholic country where 54% of pregnancies are unintended. Are 4 jobs being created every minute? No way! This is extending the poverty and stunting socioeconomic growth. The government should make contraceptives more widely available, provide sex education, and make abortion legal - there are an estimated half million of them happening every year anyway.