"Ideally, you want to be in a fifty-fifty power-sharing arrangement with the audience - both of you are there for a mutually enjoyable experience."

“Teamwork is not a preference, it is a requirement.”

“Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But the merchant, like all other industrious men, seeks his benefit only in his talent, in virtue of freely arrived at agreements, and appealing to faith and the laws.”

“Everybody has some responsibility. The point is, how are we going to fix it? And you don't fix it simply by blaming the other guy, or blaming the past.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

“Will you make a song for him?' the woman asked. 'He has a song,' the man replied. 'He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire.”

“In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.”

“One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.”

Source : Patricia Wentworth (2006). “Poison in the Pen”, p.93, Hachette UK

“Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.”

“Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.”

Source : Ellen Goodman (2010). “Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times”, p.334, Simon and Schuster