"The sight of him did something to me I've never quite been able to explain. He was more than tremendous speed and beauty of motion. He set me dreaming."

“Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.”

“The biggest enemy to the partnership of dressage is impatience and the human nature to dominate other creatures.”

Source : Walter Zettl (1998). “Dressage in Harmony: From Basic to Grand Prix”, p.32, Trafalgar Square Books

“...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is a gross violation of the cherished value of political equality. At the same time, it does not protect the interests of small states or racial minorities, nor does it serve as a bastion of federalism. Instead the Electoral College distorts the presidential campaign so that candidates ignore most small states - and many large ones - and pay little attention to minorities.”

“John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I feel like the seventies was a decade where things ran out, and where other things set in. There was just a lurking graininess and seediness about the decade, a slight grogginess of the hangover from the sixties.”

“Attitude and personality are as important as experience and ability.”

“Until we choose to deal with our yesterday today, we're never going to step into tomorrow.”

“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Aug 19, 2011