"The word 'professional' doesn't hold any magic or mystique. The people who really change the world are usually amateurs"

“When Im writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.”

“I'd desperately love England to beat the Australians.”

“Wherever a people have grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful means of reducing it is religion.”

“The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.”

“The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding”

“Technologies, including cell phones, have the potential to help millions of poor people out of poverty by enabling access to a range of safe, affordable financial services - most importantly, savings accounts - that have long been out of reach.”

Source : "Banking on Savings for the Poor" by Sylvia Mathews Burwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2010.

“Forgive thyself little, and others much.”

“Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat.”