"Whoever is holding the belt right now is the one I want to fight. I want to get that belt again. It's mine."

“Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.”

Source : George Jean Nathan (1925). “The American Mercury”

“A fan is someone who, if you have made an idiot of yourself on the pitch, doesn't think you've done a permanent job.”

“When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals.”

“When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic to be rooted in the real. It's both things. It's not just a fairytale moment. It's the surrealism that arises out of the real.”

“Trading has taught me not to take the conventional wisdom for granted. What money I made in trading is testimony to the fact that the majority is wrong a lot of the time. The vast majority is wrong even more of the time. I've learned that markets, which are often just mad crowds, are often irrational; when emotionally overwrought, they're almost always wrong.”

“Never join an organization.”

Source : Georges Braque (1971). “Illustrated notebooks, 1917-1955”, Dover Pubns

“Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant.”

“But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information.”

Source : Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. July 26, 2005.