"Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past."

“Yes, it's true that you can't learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.”

“You have to be careful not to get overexposed.”

“Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man and the Sea. The best writers stamp prose with their own distinctive personality; their timbre and tone are as recognizable as their voices on the phone. To cultivate voice, you must listen for the music of language-the vernacular, the syntactic tics, the cadences.”

Source : Constance Hale (2001). “Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose”, Broadway

“Im always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, Im always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. Its like my job is my vacation.”

“There's no silver spoon treatment in this place.”

“The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.”

Source : John Masefield, Audrey Napier-Smith, William Buchan (1983). “Letters to Reyna”, London : Buchan & Enright

“Man does indeed know intuitively more than he rationally understands. The question, however , is how we can gain access to the potentials of the knowledge contained in the depth of us, how we can achieve increased capacities of direct intuition and enlarged awareness.”

“It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century”