"Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls"

“Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.”

“You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient.”

Source : "The Sameness of Organisms, Cities, and Corporations". Interview with Ben Lillie, blog.ted.com. July 26, 2011.

“First, it is providing a means whereby key individuals on its payroll are able to obtain both power and wealth through granting special favors to certain politically influential groups that are subject to its regulation. This activity is similar to the 'protection racket' of organized crime: for a price, one can induce FDA administrators to provide 'protection' from the FDA itself.”

“I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.”

“Life is full of alternatives but no choice.”

Source : Patrick White (2011). “The Aunt's Story”, p.137, Random House

“Each and every soul will become consciously aware of the ability to communicate with the divine.”

“I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.”

“I want to teach the post basic moves: turn and bank; drop-step and shoot a power layup; turn to the middle, pump-fake, one-bounce layup; and I want to teach five power moves. They are power layup straight up; pump-fake one bounce to the other side power layup; pogo when you catch it up high, keep it up high, and shoot it; and then the two-hand follow shot.”