“It doesn’t really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.”

“Sometimes, instead of your heart, use your brain.”

“What if our common sense has been negatively influenced by our addiction to comfort?”

“Maxims of Ptahhotep spoke a lot of sense; ‘Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned. Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones.’ Now THAT I’ll give the green light to. The opinions, eloquence and articulacy of the man or woman on the street can often be as invaluable as precious stones.”

“There will come a time in every girl’s life when she realizes that your ex-girlfriend wasn’t crazy. Actually, she was right (about you).”

“Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.”

“Why can’t we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.”

“Knowledge counts but common sense matters.”

“I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!”

“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge”

“LIVING LIFE FOR THE VALUE OF COMPLETION, NOT JUST FOR THE VALUE OF SUCCESS, IS URGENTLY NEEDED FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT.”

“Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx.”