"I went to the store to buy a race car for my son's birthday, and the next thing I know I was working part time for the holidays. Then in February 2002, I started working on a plan to purchase the store."

“Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.”

“If you're just letting the time pass at your job, it's just dead time and you'll never get it back. If at that job you're learning and you're observing and you're seeing about people and connections, it's suddenly alive time.”

“I love chocolate. Black chocolate with marshmallow inside, caramel inside. If I could only have two foods, I'd take some fantastic chocolate. And some terrible chocolate. I love the Clark Bar.”

“I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.”

“She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.”

“A movement without vision would be a movement without moral foundation.”

“The song of the umrhubhe creates a world of dreams.”

Source : Zakes Mda (2007). “The Heart of Redness: A Novel”, p.154, Macmillan

“Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.”

Source : Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1848). “The popular works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, tr., with a memoir of the author by W. Smith”, p.218