"If your house has Cold Mountain poems They are better for you than sutras Hang them up where you can see them Read them and read them again"

“You and I must work together to develop our country, to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve or provide all day-to-day essentials.”

Source : Jomo Kenyatta (1965). “Harambee!: The Prime Minister of Kenya's Speeches, 1963-1964 : from the Attainment of Internal Self Government to the Threshold of the Kenya Republic”, Nairobi : Oxford University Press, 1964 [i.e. 1965]

“Anybody that I ever dealt with knows that I'm a very focused individual, and when it comes to my work and what I do, you might have to play the back burner to that.”

“I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it.”

“I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.”

“I was not elected to produce a pile of vetoes.”

“Classic Recipe for Roast Beef: 1 large Roast of beef 1 small Roast of beef Take the two roasts and put them in the oven. When the little one burns, the big one is done.”

“Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too.”

Source : robyn carr (1992). “mind tryst”

“There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.”