"Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some."

“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”

Source : Attributed to Edith Sitwell in Life Magazine, January 4, 1963.

“The highest calling of leadership is to unlock the potential of others.”

Source : "Leadership Lessons". Independent Banker Interview, independentbanker.org. March 16, 2015.

“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”

“There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!”

“I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?”

“I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I understand what it takes to keep them running.”

“Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously.”

“I am full of the sorrow that goes with changes in surroundings, those successive stages of annihilation that slowly lead to the great and final void.”

Source : Isabelle Eberhardt (2003). “The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated