"There is value in being free and spontaneous but the greatest power comes from seeing and using what results from that freedom."

“Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession ...”

“Whenever other worlds invite us, whenever we are balancing on the boundaries of our limited human condition, that’s where life starts, that’s where you start feeling yourself living.”

“Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.”

“It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.”

“The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.”

“Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison”

“Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.”

Source : Ernst Toller (1937). “Look Through the Bars: Letters from Prison, Poems, and a New Version of "The Swallow Book"”

“It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.”

Source : "I Was Impossible, but Then I Saw How to Lead". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. December 3, 2011.