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“...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for.”
Source : Eric Greitens (2011). “The Heart and the Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular spot for burning people alive. Now lined with a row of small shops, the tradition continues, though in a figurative rather than literal sense.”
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“The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.”
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“In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.”
Source : "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009. 
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“It's smarter to look at portions than to count calories.”
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“Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.”
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“The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.”
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“There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 A.M. on a Thursday night in August in Shaker Heights and I bet you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I tell you, it's ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.”
Source : "A Dream of New Orleans, Interrupted". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. September 13, 2005.
