"The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties."

“The challenges in this place are real and sometimes very difficult, but I've learned to slow down and look for beauty in my days, for the mysteries and blessings woven into everything, into the very words we speak.”

“Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.”

Source : Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

“I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.”

“By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly demand them; from them however he deduces the phenomena absolutely completely as necessary.”

“Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.”

Source : John Hans Kautsky, Karl Kautsky (1924). “Karl Kautsky: Marxism, Revolution, and Democracy”, p.217, Transaction Publishers

“If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.”

“Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.”

“For most of the track world, the Olympic year is such a huge year, and it's a big year for us marathoners too.”