"I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and don't get to discover any others."

“If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.”

Source : "Feats of memory anyone can do". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2012.

“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”

“I think that we have to firstly accept ourselves the way we are. I do think that girls are told at an early age that straightening their hair is the right thing, whereas it's simply not. You need to shut down the negative energy and do what makes you feel good. What makes you feel good is what makes you beautiful!”

“I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.”

“The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.”

“I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.”

“Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.”

“There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.”

Source : "Hoff the hook" by Lucy Mangan, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2006.