"Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well."

“Much of anyone's game is played (or should be played) in the short six-inch course between the ears.”

“The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court.”

“I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of its own. The more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world, because taste is rooted in nature. When art is true, it is one with nature. This is the secret of primitive art and also of the art of the mastersMichelangelo, Czanne, Seurat, and Renoir. The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican.”

Source : Diego Rivera, with Gladys March (2012). “My Art, My Life: An Autobiography”, p.31, Courier Corporation

“My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.”

“History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children, or as the lying prime minister and president.”

Source : "Mahathir Criticises Bush, Blair". www.thestar.com.my. February 05, 2007.

“Truth is it's own witness.”

“If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.”

Source : "Herta Müller: a life in books". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2012.

“I think the reporter or journalist is well served by having a responsibility to the powerless, to use a much-abused cliché. The voice of the powerless is in some danger of not being heard in the elite discourses we now have in the mainstream media.”