"True strength lies in action. Let the weak react to me."

“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”

Source : Malcolm Gladwell (2008). “Outliers: The Story of Success”, p.31, Hachette UK

“Christianity is not a matter of persuading people of particular ideas, but of inviting them to share in the greatness of Christ. So pray that I may never fall into the trap of impressing people with clever speech, but instead I may learn to speak with humility, desiring only to impress people with Christ himself.”

“Nevermind what you normally would do. Just cough up your goddam buck like everyone else.”

“True negotiation takes place when each side respects the other, and their point of view, and enters into the discussion positively. If you are determined that your solution, and your particular solution only, is the correct one - to be imposed on the other side if necessary - that is not negotiation; it is dictatorship”

“Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love”

“I'm dragging the audience to hell with me”

“I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The Seagull.”

“...the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.”