"If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer."

“Big data is at the foundation of all of the megatrends that are happening today, from social to mobile to the cloud to gaming.”

“If you have a dream , don't waste your energies explaining why.”

“One night, I was chatting with a group of 16-year-old girls over a few drinks about a name for the record store ... A bunch of ideas were bounced around, then, as we were all new to business, someone suggested Virgin. It smacked of new and fresh and at the time the word was still slightly risqué, so, thinking it would be an attention-grabber, we went with it.”

“I was weird right from the start. It's just that you can't ever expect people to get you. And I do think that really did mess with my head, being well-known young, when you really don't know who you are.”

Source : Interview with Daniel Radcliffe, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

“When I was a waiter, I wanted to be the best waiter I could be and worked to be better at it every day.”

Source : "Ask an Expert: 'Shark Tank' judge on being an entrepreneur". Interview with Steve Strauss, www.usatoday.com. February 24, 2012.

“There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.”

“But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei”

“First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.”