"The undiscovered is not far away. It's not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before."

“Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.”

“Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.”

“I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzing what they do - and obsessive listening. I think that's the core of my work on music - has been just listening to things and listening to singers.”

Source : "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 4, 2015.

“There are hundreds of good reasons for having a cat, but all you need is one.”

“There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.”

“When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.”

“It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.”

“The four most dangerous words in finance are 'this time is different.' Thanks to this masterpiece by Carmen Reinhart at the University of Maryland and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard, no one can doubt this again. . . . The authors have put an immense amount of work into collecting the data financial institutions needed if they were to have any chance of making quantitative risk management work.”