"Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment."

“The snow has left the cottage top; The thatch moss grows in brighter green; And eaves in quick succession drop, Where grinning icicles have been, Pit-patting with a pleasant noise In tubs set by the cottage door; While duck and geese, with happy joys, Plunge in the yard pond brimming over. The sun peeps through the window pane: Which children mark with laughing eye, And in the wet street steal again To tell each other spring is night.”

“You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.”

“But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought about, not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular ease, but by the establishment of general laws.”

“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.”

“Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.”

Source : Peter Schjeldahl (2008). “Let's see: writings on art from the New Yorker”

“It's been harder for me for sure being Muslim American, it's been harder for me for sure being the first Muslim ever elected anything here in Virginia, but it's actually made me into a much better person. So, the neat thing is while it's more difficult for people like me maybe to get elected in certain parts of our country, we prove that it's possible. And, that's something to be commended here in our country, that people from all walks of life can be involved and that's not the case even in some developed countries.”

“When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you.”

“It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.”