"I want to be great at what I do. I don't want to be just an average rapper."

“No man should be allowed to be President who does not understand hogs.”

“Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.”

Source : Robyn Davidson (1995). “Tracks”, Vintage

“there are many Africas.”

“If we worried half as much what others are doing for us and spent twice as much time helping others, we would all be exponentially happier.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kirstie Alley from Aug 19, 2012

“Plus-sized women shouldnt think of themselves as a size. They should think of themselves as women with rich goals in life. Size doesn’t mean, really, anything. You can carry your size with pride and dress in a way that you like.”

“What loss is there in dignity, what worry is there of failure?”

Source : Liang Zhuge, Ji Liu (2005). “Mastering the Art of War”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

“The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice, every user of land should be required to make an annual payment to the local government equal to the current rental value of the land that he or she prevents others from using.”

“It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.”

Source : "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.