"Luck is created by the prepared."

“I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.”

Source : 'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 1

“To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.”

“Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.”

“Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.”

“I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.”

Source : "‘Hello I Must Be Going’ Star Melanie Lynskey On Her Bout With Depression After ‘Heavenly Creatures’ and Proving Naysayers Wrong" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. September 05, 2012.

“One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.”

“Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.”

Source : Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

“Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.”