"Power ... was the coin of the Washington realm and, without it, you might as well file for bankruptcy."

“It is such a comfort to drop the tangles of life into God's hands and leave them there.”

“Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine.”

“Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.”

“When you let go, you lose pain and gain insight.”

“I would not say that Harvard possesses any sort of absolute dominance. And I personally do not take the rankings of schools all that seriously. However, I think that Harvard's global visibility increased significantly in the 1930s and 1940s and that the new commitment to excellence at Harvard spread to other institutions.”

“It isn't that a warrior learns shamanism as time goes by; rather, what he learns as time goes by is to save energy. This energy will enable him to handle some of the energy fields which are ordinarily inaccessible to him. Shamanism is a state of awareness, the ability to use energy fields that are not employed in perceiving the everyday-life world that we know.”

“Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!”

“I found that life has to be edited to continue.”

Source : Tracey Emin, Carl Freedman, Rudolf Herman Fuchs, Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Tracey Emin: works 1963-2006”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns