"I do make a conscious effort to bring energy every day. Have fun, keep stuff light, all of that stuff."

“... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.”

Source : Dorothy Gilman (2007). “Kaleidoscope”, p.96, Ballantine Books

“Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.”

“I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.”

“Breathe slumbrous music round me, sweet and slow,To honied phrases set!Into the land of dreams I long to go.Bid me forget!”

Source : Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1900). “Fancy's Following”

“As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.”

Source : Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2006). “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”, p.25, Penguin UK

“More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.”

“I cannot say to be glad or not glad to be on Everest. It is my life. I have opportunity to be here, so I am here.”

“If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.”