"Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part."

“Don't hire the most qualified, hire the craziest”

“The activities of the liberated soul transcend the pairs of opposites.”

“Pardoning Snowden would be a powerful way for the president to acknowledge that the government did wrong, kept us in the dark, acted unconstitutionally. And but for the actions of Edward Snowden, we would still be in a very dark place.”

Source : "Activists Launch Campaign Urging Obama To Pardon Edward Snowden". "All Things Considered" with David Welna, www.npr.org. September 14, 2016.

“I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.”

“Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them; but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again and the joy first derived from it will still be there.”

Source : Ruskin Bond (2014). “Uncles, Aunts and Elephants: A Ruskin Bond Treasury”, p.213, Penguin UK

“There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.”

“The goal of a designer is to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize and glean insights that enable him or her to “make the invisible visible”

“There are some effects of the biome. Compact bodies tend to conserve heat relative to linear ones. This can affect average height as well as body proportions. The study participants Europeans and Americans do not fall into the range where this effect is powerful, however.”