"Freedom is... freedom can actually be boring, you've got to realize that."

“In the business world, allegations of accounting irregularities is tantamount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, except, today, in our Internet world, instead of people running for the exit signs, they just push the button on their computer.”

“In a real relationship, you take two steps forward, one step back. So just because we take two steps forward and get all the benefit from that doesn't mean we can't go back or to the side.”

Source : "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

“I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.”

“The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.”

Source : John Hanning Speke (1863). “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, p.17

“Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day.”

Source : Edward Bach, F. J. Wheeler (1998). “The Bach Flower Remedies”, p.10, McGraw Hill Professional

“Let husband and wife never speak to one another in loud tones,unless the house is on fire.”

“Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.”

“A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.”