"I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems."

“The term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities. These are such as are not accessible to the ordinary person, but are regarded as of divine origin or as exemplary, and on the basis of them the individual concerned is treated as a 'leader.”

Source : Economy and Society ch. 3 (1922)

“Writers are engineers of human souls.”

“It's O.K. to accept good fortune.”

“If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak?”

“My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.”

“The only way to change the world is to change yourself.”

Source : Sarah Susanka (2007). “The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters”, p.38, Random House

“To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.”

Source : Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”

“I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.”