"You have to learn to recognize your own depth."

-- Joseph Campbell

“You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all the parents and the kids in the neighborhood say racist things about this family.”

Source : "New Again: Destiny’s Child". www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2013.
“To us love says humming that the heart's stalled motor has begun working again.”

Source : 1928 'Letter fromParis to Comrade Kostorov on the Nature of Love' (translated by Samuel Charteris).
“It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.”

Source : Josh Lieb (2015). “Ratscalibur”, p.162, Penguin
“It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.”
“Hey there. Here's something familiar, a bat. Hope you like it.”
“What did not demolish me simply polished me.”

Source : Song: Soulbird Rise, 2013
“Many other artists who sing about hope think that it is something every single person carries within himself. I'm not so sure if that's true. For me, hope is the little light guiding you the way, which reminds you that life does have a sense, that you have goals. To believe in that is often more easily said than done.”
“We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever, too.”

Source : Michael J. Gelb (2009). “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day”, p.43, Dell

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