I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

The cheerful loser is the winner.

Elbert Hubbard

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.

Arthur C. Clarke

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

Ambrose Bierce

It is easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man.

Albert Einstein

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Albert Einstein

A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I dont know and I dont care.

Richard Pratt

A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

Moira Kelly

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

George Soros

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Kahlil Gibran

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Khaled Hosseini

Schönheit ist Ewigkeit, die sich in einem Spiegel anschaut. - Aber ihr seid die Ewigkeit, und ihr seid der Spiegel.

Kahlil Gibran