"The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations and his innate humility - all make for a one-in-a-billion individual."

-- Glenn McGrath

#Humility Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Joy Quotes

“The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.”
“Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people.”
“To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.”
“My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.”
“The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.”

Source : "Carlos Ghosn: What Japan Needs Is a Vision". Interview with Joyce Barnathan, www.bloomberg.com. December 16, 2002.
“I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on Mad Max in Africa, so we became really fast friends.”
“Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties are sharpened by the absence of the credibility that I ask for. As a historian, I know what can be offered.”
“The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.”

Source : Marianne Fredriksson (1999). “Simon's Family”

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