"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."

“The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.”

“Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.”

Source : "Lou Dobbs Tonight", edition.cnn.com. August 16, 2006.

“For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.”

Source : Edward Lee Thorndike (1898). “Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals”

“I was a power dunker. I want to go straight up, put it down on somebody. I want everybody under there.”

Source : "Dime Q&A: Darryl Dawkins Reveals The Origin of His Nickname And Recalls His First Dunk". Uproxx Interview, uproxx.com. August 4, 2011.

“the leader releases energy, unites energies, and all with the object not only of carrying out a purpose, but of creating further and larger purposes. And I do not mean here by larger purposes mergers or more branches; I speak of larger in the qualitative rather than the quantitative sense. I mean purposes which will include more of those fundamental values for which most of us agree we are really living.”

Source : Mary Parker Follett (1957). “Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett”

“Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.”

Source : "A history of the little black dress" By Ann Hoevel, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2012.

“Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.”

“Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year'.”