"I am very strong & robust & not of the delicate sex nor of the fair but of the deficent in look ..."

“When the ability to have movement across social class becomes virtually impossible, I think it is the beginning of the end of a country. And because education is so critical to success in this country, if we don't figure out a way to create greater mobility across social class, I do think it will be the beginning of the end.”

Source : "Opening the Door for Low-Income Students to Overcome 'Aristocracy' of Higher Ed". www.pbs.org. September 08, 2013.

“There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.”

“I would tell myself the same thing that I continue to tell myself today, which is don't sweat the small things.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com

“It's strange with graffiti. You put a lot out, but you don't get that much back because not many people know who's doing it. You have your peers of about 10 guys who know you are the one painting.”

Source : Source: www.freshnessmag.com

“What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.”

“We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow the madness gave way to afrenzy which would leave our poor Europe in a state of distracted stupor, with engines still turning and flags streaming in the breeze, but with the spirit gone.”

“What we think and what we eat, combined together, make what we are, physically and mentally.”

“People must get respect for their new ideas.”

Source : Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.