Tony Mendez Quotes & Sayings

I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va. — Elliott Yamin

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children. — Eleanor Catton

You have to be blunt to make a point — James Moore

Let miseries come in millions of rivers and happiness in hundreds! I am no slave to misery! I am no slave to happiness! — Swami Vivekananda

Who said you can not buy happiness, when you are thinking about puppies. — Gene Hill

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down. — Arianna Huffington

Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Oleander time, she said. Lovers who kill each other now will blame it on the wind. — Janet Fitch

A nation has character only when it is free. — Bill Vaughan

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can. — Aaron Eckhart

Yes, you can get a man to do just about anything, and you know it. So, what are you going to attract him into doing? Buying you a nice house? Giving you the space to guide your own life? Or, offering his deepest gifts to you and all beings while opening his heart to God?
Are you a selfish witch, a self-sufficient witch, or a witch for the sake of drawing your man and all beings open as a gift for all? — David Deida

In the first place, the ideas of people who are not intellectually free are always in a muddle, and it's extremely difficult to talk to them; and, secondly, they usually love no one, and have nothing to do with women, and their mysticism has an unpleasant effect on sensitive people. I — Anton Chekhov