"Bonobos really violate a rule of nature where usually if you're bigger, you're going to be dominant. But here, females are actually smaller. But they're still not dominated by males because they work together."

“Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.”

“The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.”

“Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives.”

Source : Richard Hovey (1899). “Launcelot and Guenevere: The marriage of Guenevere”

“The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.”

“I intend that I am learning from my experiences so that I am only repeating the ones that bring me happiness.”

Source : Tony Burroughs (2012). “Get What You Want: The Art of Making and Manifesting Your Intentions”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

“Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit.”

Source : "Opera Star Andrea Bocelli On Finishing His Master’s And His ‘Passion For Life’". Interview with Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2013.

“Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.”

“Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.”