"The only people I am aware of who don't have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods. There is never a care, never a moment of stress and never an obstacle to ruin a day. All is calm. All is serene. Most towns have at least one such worry-free zone. We call them cemeteries."

“When I wasn't sure what the word "charisma" meant, I met Steve Jobs, and then I knew.”

Source : "The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires". Documentary, 1996.

“Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.”

“Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie,Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store,Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.”

Source : Robert Southwell, “Look Home”

“Limits exist only in the souls of those who do not dream.”

“Closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President [Barack] Obama made it but has yet to fulfill.”

“I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art is for; it's not cerebral, it's emotional.”

“My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it's plenitude.”

“If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all.”

Source : "Ozwald Boateng: does my head look big in this?". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.