"The U.S. and, to a certain extent, countries in Europe as well, have experienced growing inequality within their population for decades - a small group of people own the lion's share of the wealth. Populists take advantage of this, and their policies are extremely hard to predict. And this has serious consequences. Companies shy away from risk, postponing their investment decisions in times of uncertainty, the stock markets get nervous and unemployment threatens to increase."

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”

“Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.”

“Actually, you want to go into an area where you're frightened. Otherwise, you're just going to be repainting beautiful paintings, but a little duller each time.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“When we know about our ancestors, when we sense them as living and as supporting us, then we feel connected to the genetic life-stream, and we draw strength and nourishment from this.”

Source : Philip Carr-Gomm (2011). “Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century”, p.110, Random House

“When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.”

Source : Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1950). “Perspectives of world history”

“But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent.”

Source : Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Eating People is Wrong”, p.172, Pan Macmillan

“After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.”

“I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.”