"If you can do something and not blow your own horn, it sure sounds a lot better."

“I’ve accomplished everything I wanted out of life, like way beyond my wildest dreams. Anything from here on is just icing. Seriously, if you find out that I died tomorrow, I’m fine. Don’t be sad for me, because I’m not sad. I died with a smile on my face.”

“Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.”

Source : "Flowers For Algernon". Book by Daniel Keyes, 2012.

“Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.”

Source : "My conversation with ex-Facebook CTO and Quora co-founder Adam D’Angelo". Interview with Om Malik, gigaom.com. Jan 7, 2013.

“Not all of us know what we are. Some of us die without ever knowing. Some of us know, and never get caught. But we're out there. Trust me.”

Source : Samantha Shannon (2013). “The Bone Season”, p.12, A&C Black

“The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.”

“I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.”

“Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.”

“There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.”