"Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter."

“I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.”

“If you want to enjoy life more fully, the trick is to teach yourself to live in the insightful mode more often.”

“There are so many ways to lose, but so few ways to win. Perhaps the best way to achieve victory is to master all the rules for disaster, and then concentrate on avoiding them.”

Source : Victor Niederhoffer (1998). “The Education of a Speculator”, p.85, John Wiley & Sons

“The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.”

“To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.”

“I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen someone had slapped my hands.”

“Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.”

“If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.”

Source : "Djimon Hounsou ‘Never Back Down’". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. March 11, 2008.