"If we're going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement."

“A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.”

“You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they dont have the physical skills but because they dont have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.”

“Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.”

“Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.”

Source : Noah Levine (2009). “Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries”, p.19, Harper Collins

“The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick.”

“I believe that many lives around us now can reflect this strange pattern of migration and movement. The question is: are we aware of it, and do we embrace it as a kind of birthright? I do. And yet, I feel deeply connected to at least two homespaces - Jamaica and Ghana, and more recently, South Carolina.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“When you find things that are tried and true for millennia, you can bet that it's going to happen tomorrow.”

“Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.”

Source : "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.