"You've got to be committed. It comes down to setting yourself goals as an individual. In rugby you have team goals that you strive for, but you also set yourself simple goals that are achievable. It helps to write them down so you understand what you need to do, and what your focus is. Put them on your wall, then each time you wake up, you'll see them. Then you can just tick them off once you've achieved them."

“If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?”

Source : "Hellfire and Heresy: Global Warming Hotheads Inflamed About Skeptical Challengers". www.forbes.com. March 23, 2006.

“After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the eternal, ever-active Now, to fit that familiar form?”

Source : Tad Williams (2002). “Otherland 4: Sea of Silver Light”, p.584, Penguin

“Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.”

“Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.”

Source : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2007). “Queen of Dreams”, p.322, Anchor

“When'er into thine eyes I see, All pain and sorrow fly from me. [Ger., Wenn ich in deine Augen sch' So schwindet all' mein Leid und Weh.]”

“Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.”

“The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.”

“To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.”

Source : Song: Perfect People, Album: Relentless