"The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation."

“I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.”

Source : "Q&A with Fernando Alonso". www.pitpass.com. June 5, 2005.

“I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.”

Source : Alex Flinn (2009). “A Kiss in Time”, p.12, Harper Collins

“Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size.”

“Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.”

“I'm the type to have a bullet-proof condom and still gotta pull out.”

Source : "10 best and worst lines from Drake’s new ‘All Me’ feat. Big Sean and 2 Chainz" by Katie Hasty, uproxx.com. August 01, 2013.

“The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.”

Source : David Eagleman (2009). “Sum: Tales from the Afterlives”, p.9, Canongate Books

“If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, non-logistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5% of all married couples. It's an extraordinary achievement.”

“The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.”

Source : Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears (1998). “The Power of Servant-leadership: Essays”, p.31, Berrett-Koehler Publishers