"For sure I see so much in Sudan that is wonderful, normal life - young entrepreneurs starting up NGO projects, kids mucking around and being kids. Everything else that happens in normal life in any part of the world, and we never get that in our media coverage. We only talk about Sudan once it's in crisis, so we end up with a distorted sense of what daily life is like for a lot of people."

“I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.”

“No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.”

“Just let the artist sign an empty canvas or a frame, with the inscription, 'I had such and such a concept in mind' for this work. The artist then need not bother with producing the work, and therefore need not be worried about being dis-satisfied. All he or she needs to do is to sell it to a collector. The collector will have the guarantee that the artist thought about the work, even if momentarily, and therefore be satisfied.”

“A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage in a World of More, Better, Faster.”

Source : Bill Jensen (2003). “The Simplicity Survival Handbook: 32 Ways to Do Less and Accomplish More”, p.4, Basic Books

“You must lend an ear today, because we are the leaders of tomorrow”

“But certainly I didn't know he was doing anything that was criminal.”

“Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.”

Source : FaceBook post by Eric Whitacre from Dec 05, 2013