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“I try to think as little as possible, at least while working. I look at some of my early stories and can see the machination behind them, like a gear slowly moving. For example, sticking a dead father into the story to explain a character's sadness and bad decisions, or trying to impress myself with my own cleverness.”
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“A Peace to End All Peace.”
Source : David Fromkin (2002). “Kosovo Crossing: The Reality of American Intervention in the Balkans”, Simon and Schuster
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“Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.”
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“There are no reluctant leaders. A real leader must really want the job. . . . If you find the need for a leader and have to coax or urge your selection, you'll be well advised to pass him over. He's not the man you need.”
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“I guess when you go to business school you never turn business off.”
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“At every stage of life, our inner self requires the nurturance of loving people attuned to our feelings and responsive to our needs who can foster our inner resources of personal power, lovability, and serenity. Those who love us understand us and are available to us with an attention, appreciation, acceptance, and affection we can feel. They make room for us to be who we are.”
Source : David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.12, Shambhala Publications
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“Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the chain of beauty, as a useful ornament for the stage, and this, in turn, as an important element in the spiritual development of nations.”
Source : August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan
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“There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.”
Source : "Ellen Goodman writes of letting go in her final column" by Ellen Goodman, www.washingtonpost.com. January 1, 2010. 
