"When you choose positive thoughts over negative ones, you are more likely to develop an optimistic outlook on life."

“American foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority of American people. And that this is due to a media that in this country is suppressed by Washington and by the owners of this media, who often tend to be corporate entities close to the [White House] and very often are arms manufacturers with a vested interest in chaos [in] the Middle East. And as a result Americans do not actually get both sides of the story.”

“The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that there is no technique, no program, just a sharp mind in touch with the situation.”

Source : Henry Mintzberg (2003). “The Strategy Process: Concepts, Contexts, Cases”, p.148, Pearson Education

“If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles.”

“If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?”

“Bullying exists because of a lack adult intervention.”

“Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.”

“Well, Im wrestling alligators.”

“Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.”

Source : The New York Times, March 26, 1961.