"I've always seen process of crafting as part of the thinking process. It really forms the gestation of the work. I'll get an idea; I want to express this idea, sometimes I'll start it, but during the process of making the object - if it's an object or a painting - it changes. It never goes in a linear progression from A to Zed. It's always this kind of circuitous, stumbling, groping in the dark kind of process of evolving."

“Even the impossible becomes possible through devotion.”

Source : Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”

“Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance. All I have to do to make me feel like a new and younger man is to order three new suits of clothes. My fur-lined overcoat gave me such a glow of health that very shortly after acquiring it I was able to enjoy the hazards of a Gargantuan studio cocktail party without a single twinge of pain.”

Source : Adolphe Menjou (1950). “It took nine tailors”

“Adam Smith, and other able writers to whom I have alluded, not having viewed correctly the principles of rent, have, it appears to me, overlooked many important truths, which can only be discovered after the subject of rent is thoroughly understood.”

“I hurt easy, I just don't show it. You can hurt someone and not even know it.”

“Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.”

Source : Alan Alda's commencement speech at Connecticut College in New London, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.

“We don't need people who can spit back facts. We've got Google.”

“One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.”

“Some say this country's just out looking for a fight, after 9/11 man, I'd have to say that's right.”

Source : Song: Have You Forgotten?