"The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it."

“Never love something so much that you can't let go of it.”

Source : "IBM's Ginni Rometty on leadership". Interview with John Huey, fortune.com. October 2, 2012.

“There is a major turning point in life when you have to decide: shall I grow old gracefully or shall I try everything to stem the tide? For me, that point came in 2001, when I stopped dyeing my hair.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror" by Nik Kershaw, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2012.

“The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.”

“With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.”

Source : "Art Spiegelman: The Sky Is Falling". Interview with Steven Heller, www.aiga.org. October 01, 2004.

“I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.”

“I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?”

Source : "The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, p. 144, 2003.

“I believe there are only one or two people in the world with whom one can have a true connection. When you've been fortunate enough to marry one of those people, you are reluctant to settle for less. One can have lovers, those are easily found, but true love rarely strikes twice.”

Source : Nicole Richie (2010). “Priceless: A Novel”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

“Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.”