"I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have."

“On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?.”

“Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?”

Source : E. T. A. Hoffmann (2000). “The Golden Pot and Other Tales”, p.20, Oxford University Press, USA

“We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak. The people who were around the patient are now being identified and traced by the CDC and by the state health authorities. ... you get people, you identify them, and you observe and monitor them daily to determine if they develop symptoms If they do, then you put them under isolation to determine if, in fact, they are infected. And if you do that properly, you can shut down any outbreak.”

“I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.”

“I don't think you get anything good if you just accept everything the way it rolls out. You have to fight for what you believe in.”

“Is not all creation a transgression?”

“I knew very little or nothing about the Olympics. Having qualified was itself a big achievement for me, and then being there was quite overwhelming. Although I lost in the opening round, but the fact that I fought well was enough for me to take away from Athens.”

Source : "I am happy with my preparations: Vijender Singh". Interview, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. June 29, 2012.

“It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.”