"Diverse groups of countries can do a lot by trading amongst themselves, exploiting differences in costs, resources, and technologies."

“Practice with the obstacle, always with the obstacle, and seek combinations.”

“I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother.”

Source : "Turkey Day" by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.

“It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.”

Source : "How journals like Nature, Cell and Science are damaging science" by Randy Schekman, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2013.

“Didn't know what I was doing but I put on a cape Now it's which world tour should I go on & take”

“There are two types of players: those who know and those who don’t. The smartest ones usually play the longest and [are] usually the most successful.”

“How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.”

Source : John Guare (2016). “Six Degrees of Separation: A Play”, p.116, Vintage

“I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit.”

“Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate.”