"The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear."

“Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.”

“It is only through the power of association that those of any calling exercise due influence in their communities.”

“This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.”

Source : "Former Dem Artur Davis Addresses GOP Convention: "Let's Take This Country Back", www.realclearpolitics.com. August 28, 2012.

“The purpose of Yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering of love.”

Source : Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

“Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation.”

“I think any woman can be transformed by a beautiful dress and high heels.”

“Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.”

“At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution.”

Source : Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.493, Harvard University Press