"You have to love animals for what they are or leave them alone. The best thing you can do if you love them is leave them alone and see that other people do too."

“Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.”

Source : "Top Chef's Tom Colicchio: Toby 'Didn't Have the Most Authoritative Voice'". Interview with Gina DiNunno, www.tvguide.com. June 22, 2010.

“From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance.”

“The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.”

Source : "Ken Auletta: "Digital is almost as disruptive to traditional media as electricity was to the candle business"". Interview with Maite Fernandez, ijnet.org. December 14, 2011.

“Keeping busy: This is a problem that you're glad to have.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.”

“The Waltons was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.”

Source : "Chairman of Biocon, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw". "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. September 4, 2004.

“We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.”