"I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26."

“I saw, moreover, that it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor my bad frame that made my righteousness worse; for my righteousness was Jesus Christ himself, the same yesterday and today and forever.”

“The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.”

Source : "Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

“What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.”

“I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.”

Source : "Sir Trevor McDonald". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

“When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads”

“You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.”

Source : "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005.

“God is in control, and therefore in EVERYTHING I can give thanks - not because of the situation but because of the One who directs and rules over it.”

Source : Kay Arthur (2009). “As Silver Refined: Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments”, p.117, WaterBrook

“If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life.”

Source : Sister Souljah (2004). “The Coldest Winter Ever”, p.31, Simon and Schuster