"Just because my personal life may not be in shambles any more it doesn't mean anything has been solved. A ring doesn't solve problems. I think I'm still having dark visions. I think I'm just a little bit fatalistic. There is a personality flaw at work perhaps."

“The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.”

“It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.”

“The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.”

“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”

Source : Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1032, Knopf Books for Young Readers

“It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.”

“It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.”

Source : "Hugh Masekela - what I'm thinking about ... a crisis for African culture". www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2013.

“I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up.”

“I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com