"In â€˜life,â€™ I donâ€™t want to be reduced to my work. In â€˜work,â€™ I donâ€™t want to be reduced to my life."

-- Susan Sontag

“All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.”
“Nobody in my generation ever started out in private equity. We got there by accident. There was no private equity business - actually, the word didn't even exist - when I started. I got there out of the purest of happenstance and so I think many people find what they really enjoy doing just in that way. So another piece of advice for you is: don't worry too much about what you're going to be doing when you get out of business school - life will come your way.”

Source : Source: www.harbus.org
“How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings' welfare and for the welfare of the planet and all that it contains? It's a difficult lesson to convey, when, more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, Prince William Sound is still experiencing the damaging effects.”

Source : "A Louisiana Mother’s Day Wish" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2010.
“I can wear a sexy dress to any red carpet event. My wedding is my chance to go all the way and wear a princess silhouette.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There're people all over the world that have access to Suicide Silence because of the internet and everyone that listens to you has a better chance to paying to see you play.”

Source : Source: www.theaureview.com
“No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.”
“Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.”

Source : Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.83
“I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately.”

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