"God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky."

“If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry.”

“It's a terrible thing that we cannot really trust the FDA or NCI (National Cancer Institute). We need, therefore, an independent scientific investigation.”

“Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.”

“For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating an upper chamber in the European parliament, a new bridge could be built between national political classes, which retain democratic legitimacy, and the decision-making process in Brussels. Such a Senate should be recruited by indirect election from exisiting national parliaments.”

“Habits are the shorthand of behavior.”

“Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from centralized fueling facilities like trucking fleets or buses and cabs. That is happening. Before it can make big inroads beyond that, infrastructure is going to need to be developed.”

Source : "Chevron's CEO: Affordable Energy Is Crucial". The Associated Press Interview, www.fool.com. December 27, 2012.

“Coach may have been the greatest innovator the sport has ever had.”

Source : "'Miracle' coach Brooks dies in auto accident" by Gerald Eskenazi, www.sfgate.com. August 12, 2003.

“I want to live for my truth, my reality, what is important to me and what I’m passionate about. I love acting, and I love being able to tell a story, but working with another human being who is struggling with the same thing that I’ve struggled with, and guiding them towards hope and redemption - it’s you know it’s a triumph, it’s a story of the triumph of the human spirit.”