"The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable."

“You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.”

“Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view. Numbers, properly considered, make us better people.”

Source : "Thinking in Numbers". Book by Daniel Tammet, 2012.

“Misfortunes make us wise.”

Source : Mary Norton (2001). “The Borrowers Afield”

“Ikebana is meant to mimic life in the way it develops; it shouldn't look like it's under the control of man.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.”

“Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Jan 20, 2016

“Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.”

Source : Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1986). “The Marriage of Maria Braun”, p.202, Rutgers University Press

“Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.”