"Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism."

“Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First Amendment, we should recall, forbids Congress both from establishing laws designating a state religion and from abridging freedom of speech. There is no reason why we should shy away from speaking freely about religion, no reason why it should be thought impolite to debate it, especially when, as so often happens, religious folk bring it up on their own and try to impose it on others.”

“I want to be on the floor. I want to fight for the win.”

“The only measure of what you believe is what you do.”

“The Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century.”

“Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.”

Source : Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

“Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.”

Source : Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). “Course in General Linguistics”, p.74, Columbia University Press

“Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.”

“My agent in London told me, after Never Let Me Go, because I loved doing that so much, "If you're on a lucky streak and you're doing well, you should only take a part, if you can't bear the idea of anyone else doing it." That's been the case since then, with Drive and Shame and the play (The Seagull), and the stuff that's going on, like Gatsby. I would have been devastated, if I hadn't gotten those jobs.”