"Nobody's going to hand you anything. You don't get what you don't go after."

--

Cinda Williams Chima

“It's hard to align with money if you think that it is evil and nasty. But once you come to an understanding that money is neutral, it's easy to see that having money does not necessarily deprive somebody else. There's no reason why you can't be very rich and still be an extremely spiritual and wonderfully generous person-aligned to the God Force-with a huge heart, and compassion for everyone you meet.”

Source : "Can Toby Young's free school succeed?". Interview with Peter Wilby, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2011.
“I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.”
“The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.”
“If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. If you are tremendously successful, and you're black, you are extraordinary, or you wouldn't stand out in this world.”
“Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes...”
“This morning my soul is greater than the world since it possesses You, You whom heaven and earth do not contain”
“Hey big mouth, how do you spell triple?”
“People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.”

Source : "The Art of Fielding". Book by Chad Harbach, September 2011.

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