"All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away."

“When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.”

“What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.”

“I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.”

Source : "LeVar Burton on Bringing 'Reading Rainbow'—the TV Show of Your Childhood—to the Tech of Today". Interview with Benjamin Jackson, www.theatlantic.com. June 20, 2012.

“Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.”

Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.56, Courier Corporation

“Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.”

Source : Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1933). “The nature of the physical world”

“The family is the essential presence, the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you have to leave it.”

“I don't snack. I don't generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones.”

“Well, I got to have a project. I'm not a blue-sky guy at all. I'd never let anybody like me loose in a company.”

Source : "Remember This?" by Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2007.