"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown."

“Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy.”

“One of the things that people sense is that you are not doing this for self-glorification, you are doing it for the sake of others. The Dalai Lama has been in exile for so many years, yet the Chinese are running scared of him.”

Source : "Kathy Calvin | President/CEO of United Nations Foundation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

“There is no truth to any meeting or physical encounter,”

Source : "Casper Smart Speaks Out Against Claims From Second Transgender Model" by Allison Takeda, www.usmagazine.com. June 9, 2014.

“Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.”

Source : Walter Mosley (2003). “What Next?: A Memoir Toward World Peace”

“Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and action, and a large artistic instinct.”

“The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.”

Source : Fragment 103 See Isaiah Berlin 1

“If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such awful depth of gloom as we do. If we could imbue our children with distinct faith in immortality, we should never speak of people as dead, but passed into another world. We should speak of the body as a cast-off garment, which the wearer had outgrown; consecrated indeed by the beloved being that used it for a season, but of no value within itself.”

“I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day's done, we've made something. We recognize that we're from different walks of the music industry, and there's no reason we shouldn't be collaborating. That's what I'm trying to create with thenewno2 - a sense of community.”