"To believe in miracles in one thing...to know what miracle you want to manifest right now, and accept it, is another."

“I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.”

“Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.”

“Through Christ's satisfaction for sin, the very nature of afflictions changed with regard to believers. As death, which was, at first, the wages of sin, is now become a bed of rest (Is. 57:2); so afflictions are not the rod of God's anger, but the gentle medicine of a tender father.”

“Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he who saved your father's life when he wished to destroy himself, as you do today-because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister, and the Paraon to Old Morrel-because I am the Edmond Dantes who nursed you, a child, on my knees.”

“Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.”

“Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused.”

“In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences.”

Source : Tim Frick (2013). “Return on Engagement: Content, Strategy and Design Techniques for Digital Marketing”, p.173, Taylor & Francis

“To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2014). “Miss Marjoribanks”, p.131, The Floating Press