"My love of poetry comes from the "actualization" I experienced in the poetry of others. And I was reading it silently and there is deep pleasure in that intimacy, a mind-to-mind transfer going on. All the music is there, inherently. And mystery as well."

“But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling.”

Source : "Thierry Henry, you're having a laugh" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. October 02, 2004.

“Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.”

“It doesn't matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated.”

“Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts.”

“What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.”

Source : "The BK Nation INTERVIEW with bell hooks". Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. February 28, 2014.

“Never compare yourself to beautiful girls.”

“It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.”

Source : "$800 million biotech business started in a garage" by Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

“Knowledge is first and wisdom is the manifestation of knowledge. To understand this tone and pattern of thinking in the numerical way automatically resonated with me.”