"Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic."

“All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.”

Source : Clive James (2009). “May Week Was In June”, p.204, Pan Macmillan

“Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.”

“I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.”

“It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.”

“I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room.”

“As Minister of Foreign Affairs. I will work on deepening Haiti's links with its traditional partners from the North and the South, while exploring all the opportunities for economic, cultural, scientific and technological cooperation that may benefit my country.”

Source : "New Haitian minister of foreign affairs delivers first official speech". Laurent Lamothe's first official speech at his installation ceremony in Bois-Verna, Haiti, www.dominicavibes.dm. October 31, 2011.

“You cannot police me, so get off my areola”

Source : FaceBook post by Janelle Monáe from Apr 01, 2015

“Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.”