"If you want to follow your dreams, you have to say no to all the alternatives."

“One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.”

“The family is the country of the heart.”

Source : Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

“Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.”

“There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.”

“When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both.”

“Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.”

Source : George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.153, Oxford University Press on Demand

“For most people, lack of consistent, persistent effort is the biggest obstacle.”

“I be crazy too, little buddy, but at least when I be craziest, I be floating all alone in space and the crazy, she float out of me, she soak into the walls, and she don't come out till there be battles and little boys bump into the walls and squish out de crazy.”