"I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family."

“For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.”

“It isn't that it's questionable when you speak up for the right of people with different sexual orientation. People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation. People are killed because they're gay.”

Source : "Interview: Desmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

“I want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.”

“You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees.”

Source : Gabrielle Hamilton (2011). “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef”, p.150, Random House

“We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit”

“I would consider my music like, pop-R&B. So it can reach a lot of people. Pop is popular music. That's what it stands for. So I'm just making music that I know that I like, I know other people will like, and my fans will like.”

“I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.”

Source : "Libussa". Play by Franz Grillparzer. Act 2, 1848.

“What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was asked. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.”