"As a businessman, I know President Obama understands what it takes to spark economic growth, because I have seen him in action."

“Not everyone is okay with living like an open wound. But the thing about open wounds is that, well, you aren't ignoring it. You're healing; the fresh air can get to it. It's honest. You aren't hiding who you are. You aren't rotting. People can give you advice on how to heal without scarring badly. But on the other hand there are some people who'll feel uncomfortable around you. Some will even point and laugh. But we all have wounds.”

“Let's start a movement - a movement of men who aren't afraid to stop violence against women.”

Source : "Men: we can start a movement to stop violence against women" by Carlos Andrés Gómez, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2013.

“It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death.”

Source : Richard K. Morgan (2003). “Altered Carbon”, Del Rey

“Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent.”

“If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.”

“If I didn't follow my passion for surfing... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera.”

“Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .”

“The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have a terror of losing my freedom. Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest--it is good. But so is this place. Might it not be better? To gain freedom one sacrifices something [...] and all that these things and people signify. One sacrifices something--for a greater gain in knowledge, in understanding, in intensified living? I sometimes wonder.”