"We never listen when we are eager to speak."

“Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.”

“Leadership is about setting a direction. It's about creating a vision, empowering and inspiring people to want to achieve the vision, and enabling them to do so with energy and speed through an effective strategy. In its most basic sense, leadership is about mobilizing a group of people to jump into a better future.”

Source : John P. Kotter (2014). “Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World”, p.60, Harvard Business Review Press

“Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.”

“We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women”

Source : Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.105, Random House

“I think that the best guarantee for the Cypriot people to feel safe is the potential of a fair and sustainable solution.”

Source : "Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

“Fighters are afraid of conditioning, they are afraid of getting tired, but I don’t want to have anxiety or be afraid of anything. I can go 100 percent out there and never have to worry about getting tired. Everybody says fighting is 90 percent mental, and it’s true. Knowing you can go 15 minutes or 25 minutes without any problem can help you sustain that mental advantage over your opponent...”

“The message of individual liberty and peace is contagious.”

“I can't do all that riddly diddly stuff. I'm not good enough. It's all about not playing.”