"Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side."

“The environment is everything that isn't me.”

“The positive side about dealing with the logistics of moving books around is that it's better than a gym!”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.”

“Bridal is very much a performance - it is the one grand event in every woman's life.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com

“always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.”

Source : Stella Benson (1922). “The Poor Man”

“Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.”

“Today China is a first world economy, in terms of development. The U.S. may still be in first in GDP but it is a broken economy in reality.”

Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

“It is better to be envied than pitied.”

Source : Herodotus (1829). “Herodotus: Tr. from the Greek for the Use of General Readers; with Short Explanatory Notes”, p.212