"I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people."

“To this day, I hate walnuts and I hate onions because on weekends when the walnuts and onions were in season, we were out there first thing in the morning and out there until the sun went down topping onions or picking walnuts.”

“Make the decision to love this day, this place, this moment, this special experience of life with the people around you. And there will be so very much to love.”

“In media terms, the camera always lies, providing an edited version of reality.”

“The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition”

“I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What impact are you making on people? What impact are you making on business?”

“Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.”

“An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.”

Source : "Deux mémoires d'Analyse pure". Manuscript by Evariste Galois (Preface), October 8, 1831, as quoted in "Manuscrits de Évariste Galois" edited by Jules Tannery (p. 27), translated, 1908.

“Seek always for the best words and the happiest expression you can find.”

Source : Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.133, Wildside Press LLC