The essence of leadership is making up your own mind and then being able to take other people with you.

We have to recognise that the validation of identity comes through relationships we have and what we produce.

The agencies are the Walmarts of the welfare agency

You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.

Every crossroad in life has four options – quit, adapt, proceed, or accept, but quitting is a dead-end.

Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear.-Sonia

Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.

Tiger's a horrible golf teacher.

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

If you want, you can overcome all: Pressure, expectations, gravity.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.