"The people who come out on top in music business have persistence. It is key! Fall down seven times; stand up eight. It takes a lot of courage and an unwavering belief in yourself and your abilities."

“Jim Rich is many different things but he has a great combination of a kind of old school tabloid reporter and editor's sense for what's a great story, but he's also incredibly passionate about social justice. I think Shaun King called him the most woke editor in American, if that's a compliment.”

“It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.”

“The orthodox faith painted God as a revengeful being, and yet people talk about loving such a being.”

“At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.”

Source : "Interview: Hank Phillippi Ryan, 'The Other Woman'". Interview with Pamela Clare, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 4, 2012.

“People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.”

“No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.”

Source : PETER FARB (1973). “WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK”

“Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.”

“straightway like a bell Came low and clear The slow, sad murmur of the distant seas”