"I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me."

“My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.”

Source : "Hans Rosling: the man who's making data cool". Interview with Claire Provost, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2013.

“Instead of being intimidated by the limitations, be inspired to find new ways around them.”

“Tehran believes it's none of our business or anybody else's to decide the future of personalities in other countries.”

Source : "Iran's Javad Zarif on Syria, Russia, and Donald Trump". Interview with Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2015.

“I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.”

Source : Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

“There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.”

“Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.”

“One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet.”