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“The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.”
― Alan Alda, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned

“We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!”
― Dee Dee Ramone

“Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north...As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.”
― E.B. White, Stuart Little

“Confía en el tiempo, que suele dar dulces salidas a muchas amargas dificultades...”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha