"I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn."

“Conventional wisdom would have one believe...”

“Carrie Fay always says that nothing is really horrible unless it eats away your face.”

Source : Katie Macalister (2008). “Up In Smoke: A Novel of the Silver Dragons”, p.33, Penguin

“The fact is I still have quite a few good years in front of me. I still improve.”

“We should seek to observe, and then to serve.”

“The real riches of yoga cannot be seen; they are felt and experienced from the inside out.”

“Raising a daughter is hard work. There's no other way to describe it for me.”

Source : "5 Questions with Isaiah Mustafa, Apologizes for 'Good Hair' Comments". Interview with Abiola Abrams, www.essence.com. October 3, 2011.

“I must always have fresh orange juice, alkaline water and hazelnut creamer for my coffee.”

“A big book is a big misfortune.”

Source : Fragment 465; translation by A. W. Bulloch, in P. E. Easterling and B. M. W. Knox (eds.) "The Cambridge History of Classical Literature" (1989) vol. 1, part 4, p. 30,