"Every fight is do or die for me. I've come too far to start over. I'm on a destiny trip right now. I'm racing towards that heavyweight world championship."

“Trees for example, carry the memory of rainfal. In their rings we read ancient weather - storms, sunlight and temperatures, the growing seasons of centuries. A forest shares a history which each tree remembers even after it has been felled.”

Source : Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.123, A&C Black

“I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.”

“I'm beginning to appreciate the value of naps. Naps are wonderful, aren't they? Sometimes now I have to take a nap to get ready for bed.”

“Perhaps the most majestic feature of our whole existence is that while our intelligences are powerful enough to penetrate deeply into the evolution of this quite incredible Universe, we still have not the smallest clue to our own fate.”

“I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.”

“A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.”

Source : "Chrisette Michele shocked at No. 1 standingMay 20, 2009". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2009.

“Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent.”

Source : Richard Allen (2009). “Australia's Remarkable Trees”, p.14, The Miegunyah Press

“I live in the #‎ present moment.”