"Whether or not it is ultimately the best of all conceivable scripts for Korean, Hangeul must unquestionably rank as one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind."

“So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.”

Source : "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

“A terrific, stimulating book...Ramalingam clearly and engagingly shows how the use of complex adaptive systems thinking can significantly strengthen and enhance the impacts and effectiveness of global foreign aid.”

“We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.”

Source : Jacob Needleman (1996). “A Little Book on Love”, Doubleday

“I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself. I'm the only one I would put through this. Wheels and wings, The ride is everything. I'm all I've got. I'm all I can take. Another day has destroyed a part of me. So far so good.”

“Talk about celestial bodies.”

“We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.”

“When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.”

“The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.”