"There's a great difference between being positive and being delusional."

“Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers of time and space and nationality. Exchanges in the field of culture can play an important role in enabling people to overcome mistrust and prejudice and build peace.”

“Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.”

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

Source : "Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence". Interview with Noel Tichy and Ram Charan, hbr.org. September/October 1989.

“All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.”

“The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.”

“There is, moreover, very little sense in preventing young people from giving expression to their ideas on the pretext that they have less experience than have older persons. There are many who may live a thousand years without encountering experience of any value. It could only be in a society of persons equally gifted that such an idea could have any meaning.”

“Editing is a very tough period. You're confronted with yourself. It's a deep, dark, truthful mirror.”

“I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.”

Source : Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.112, Hachette UK