"Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown."

“An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.”

“That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed to within a few acres; its mountains and craters have been measured to within a few yards; while on the earth's surface there are 30,000,000 square kilometres (sixty times the extent of France), upon which the foot of man has never trod, which the eye of man has never seen.”

“We have lost the art of sharing and caring.”

“There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.”

Source : "Model Petra Nemcova Recovering After Tsunami". abcnews.go.com. May 17, 2005.

“The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.”

Source : "The Exchange: Daniel Alarcón". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2009.

“Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent.”

“Men argue. Nature acts.”

“Business is a spiritual pursuit. Your business will not grow unless you grow as a person”