"What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness."

“To measure your needs by that which is projected via mass media is a mistake that has no mercy. The average person views a minimum of one thousand advertisements a day. To say "no" to the most outrageous commercials is an act of responsibility that needs to be taught early and often.”

Source : Haki R. Madhubuti (2002). “Tough Notes: A Healing Call for Creating Exceptional Black Men : Affirmations, Meditations, Readings, and Strategies”

“We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.”

Source : A. G. Sertillanges (1987). “The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods”, p.213, CUA Press

“As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.”

“Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.”

“On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data.”

Source : "Yelp CEO talks mobile growth, global expansion... and doner kebabs". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2013.

“There's two elements to rap: having the thoughts, and then being a great rapper.”

“It does not matter what has been made of us; what matters is what we ourselves make of what has been made of us.”

Source : Jan Kott (2015). “Shakespeare, Our Contemporary”, p.90, Doubleday

“An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.”