"Thoughts, words, ideas and information, free from any bonds or restrictions, is the very concrete which pours out a foundation strong enough that upon which a house, stable and lasting, of true freedom and liberty may be built."

“New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.”

“I think the media put more pressure on women, especially in regards to the way they look and how they're supposed to behave.”

“Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.”

“If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.”

“I would spend hours and hours gazing at the stars and wondering, what's out there? Sometimes I wondered if   maybe there was another girl like me on another planet some place gazing at the stars and thinking about the same things.”

“The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion.”

Source : "The Persian Bayán". Book by Siyyid `Ali Muhammad Shirazi (Unity II, Chapter 16), 1848.

“THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.”

Source : Mark Kurlansky (2003). “Salt: A World History”, p.48, Penguin

“I'm not a good listener some times. I'm too much of a control freak. I'm learning to be better. I was so caught up in just getting the job done that I would miss out on the human aspect of this. There was a connection missing.”