"He never holds friends firmly who watches only after their own wants."

“It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.”

“I was analyzing the guys' nonverbal communication.”

“I think finals are there to be won, you know the feeling of losing a final is really bad. I prefer to lose a semi-final, quarter-final because I know I will forget... But the feeling of losing a final stays here forever. Even if you win two, three, four, five it stays. You know, I’m too scared to lose, so I give everything to win.”

“I am trying to represent design through drawing. I have always drawn things to a high degree of detail. That is not an ideological position I hold on drawing but is rather an expression of my desire to design and by extension to build. This has often been mistaken as a fetish I have for drawing: of drawing for drawing’s sake, for the love of drawing. Never. Never. Yes, I love making a beautiful, well-crafted drawing, but I love it only because of the amount of information a precise drawing provides”

“Where lies our salvation? You asked. We do not need any salvation. Does not our end lie on this beginning shore?”

Source : Kofi Awoonor (1987). “Until the morning after: selected poems, 1963-85”, Greenfield Review Pr

“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”

Source : Alison Hawthorne Deming (1994). “Temporary Homelands”

“I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.”

“Your every act can open hearts and minds.”