"You can't be an absentee entrepreneur and expect the team to stay motivated."

“The truly thankful person is a truly peaceful person.”

“I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.”

Source : "The whole world in a community". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

“Do you really love me? means, Will you accept me in process? Will you embrace what is different about me and applaud my efforts to become? Can I just be human---strong an vibrant some days, weak and frail on others?...Will you love me even when I disappoint you?...”

“Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered.”

“When I say, "Be my lover", I don't mean, "Let's have an affair." I don't mean "Sleep with me." I don't mean, "Be my secret." I want us to go back down to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves you.”

“Whenever you appreciate a certain thing you become conscious of its real quality, and whenever you become conscious of the quality of anything, you begin to develop that quality in yourself. When we appreciate the worth of a person, we tend to impress the idea of that worth in our own minds, and thereby cause the same effect to be produced, in a measure, in ourselves.”

“There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.”

“To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.”