"I cannot please everybody, but it is important to have one eye. This builds a faithful following and, consequently, good clientele. That's why the conversation - the dialogue with visitors and customers - is so important."

“I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.”

“In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.”

“Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.”

“I want to say to all the young women out there, as I say to all young people: believe in yourselves, follow your passion and never give up, because you will create a future filled with possibility.”

Source : "Proms 2013: Last Night conductor Marin Alsop 'shocked there can still be firsts for women'". www.telegraph.co.uk. September 8, 2013.

“And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction,”

“we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.”

Source : Barbara Ehrenreich (2008). “Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation”, Granta Books (UK)

“The prophetic word was never meant to be a trophy. It was meant to be a weapon.”

“We always imagine that there's got to be somewhere else better than where we are right now; this is the Great Somewhere Else we all carry around in our heads. We believe Somewhere Else is out there for us if only we could find it. But there's no Somewhere Else. Everything is right here...Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really.”

Source : Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.55, Simon and Schuster