"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."

“Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare.”

“If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.”

“It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life? To learn the art of remaining motionless amid the agitation of the whirlwind, to learn to remain still and to be as transparent as this fixed light amid the frantic branches this may be a program for life.”

“It's a hard world for little things,”

Source : "Fictional character: Rachel Cooper". Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, www.imdb.com. 1955.

“The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.”

“I'm a bit of a connoisseur of Google criticism.”

Source : "TED 2011: The 'Panda' That Hates Farms: A Q&A With Google's Top Search Engineers". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. March 3, 2011.

“Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious.”

Source : Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.123, Island Press

“I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.”