"I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself."

“I don't think that I need to tell you how important to the outcome of that race is the education legislation that is now before the Congress. I hope that it is important enough that most of you have studied it in detail. I hope that you understand that it represents the very best thinking that the leading educators of this country can produce.”

“Picture in your mind a sense of personal destiny.”

“Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.”

Source : "The Business Book". Book, Dorling Kindersley Ltd, 2014.

“When a sudden ray of sun or a moonbeam falls on a dreary street, it makes no difference what it illumines-a broken bottle on the ground, a fading flower in a field, or the flaxen blonde hair of a child's head. The object is transformed and the viewer is transfixed. Celebrate that moment of beauty and take it with you in your memory. It is God's gift to you.”

“I speak only one language, and it is not my own.”

“I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.”

Source : "Higgs boson: it's unofficial! Cern scientists discover missing particle" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.

“Because he has the best equipment in the City and he knows how to use it!”

“dealing with loss and heartache doesn't make you stronger. It only makes people think you are.”