"I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country."

“Tabouli is the best salad, but still, you don't win friends with salad”

“Fathers, I do not practice. I'm not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil", then God enters in me.”

Source : The Lantern Interview, April 5, 2001.

“Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.”

“We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.”

“It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.”

“I've gone through three changes- I thought I was a Christian then I was the devil then the third one, where I know who I am you know I feel like I'm an alien.”

“A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.”

Source : "RD Interview: Malcolm Gladwell Explains the Truth About Underdogs" by Barbara O'Dair, www.rd.com.

“You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.”

Source : Tama J. Kieves (2003). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher