"We do not have a plan. They do. History shows that those that plan, anticipate and have a coherent strategy usually win. We are not winning."

“There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.”

Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown

“It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”

Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.388, A&C Black

“Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart.”

“If you have a wounded heart, touch it as little as you would an injured eye. There are only two remedies for the suffering of the soul: hope and patience.”

“A lot of people think that it was about Biggie on the East Coast and 2Pac on the West Coast. It wasn't like that. Big ran New York. 2Pac ran America.”

“We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed.”

Source : Frank Bidart (2017). “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016”, p.275, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

“There are two kinds of actors -- one sits in a dressing room waiting for his call and the other gets out into the business and polishes his craft by absorbing everything. I don't know enough, I'll never learn everything I need to learn. When a guy thinks he's already learned it, he can only go backwards.”

“The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business.”