"From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is."

“You have to change your thinking if you desire to have a future different from your present.”

“I believe people work for satisfaction.”

“Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.”

Source : Source: www.wbur.org

“Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.”

“Just a rock, a dome of snow, the deep blue sky, and a hunk of orange-painted metal from which a shredded American flag cracked in the wind. Nothing more. Except two tiny figures walking together those last few feet to the top of the Earth.”

Source : Peter Potterfield, Tom Hornbein (2003). “Everest”, p.141, The Mountaineers Books

“Today social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience of the world. The abyss between those who are within the world 'order' and those who are excluded is widening day by day. The use of leading-edge technologies has made it possible to accumulate wealth in a way that is fantastic but perverse because it is unjustly distributed. Twenty-percent of humankind control eighty percent of all means of life. That fact creates a dangerous imbalance in the movement of history.”

Source : Leonardo Boff (2001). “The Prayer of Saint Francis: A Message of Peace for the World Today”, p.43, Orbis Books

“Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.”

“My first language is Gaelic.”

Source : Interview with Rachel Corcoran, www.saga.co.uk. November 2, 2015.