"I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road."

“The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.”

“Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a word in edgeways.”

“The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.”

Source : "Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo: Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair". Interview With Peter Guest, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

“for many people traveling can have deep psychological meaning.”

“Somebody asked me a question. It was a defining question: 'What type of legacy do you want to leave?' We ask that question a lot later in life, but we need to start asking it to young people.”

Source : Craig Kielburger, Marc Kielburger (2004). “Me to We: Turning Self-Help on Its Head”, [Mississauga, Ont.] : Wiley

“All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.”

“In the long arc of time, you are only relevant if customers love you.”

“In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.”

Source : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”