As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home where there were a lot of rules. I didn't have 'yes' parents.

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Paul Davies

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Popularity? It is glory's small change

Victor Hugo

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.

Benjamin Disraeli

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

Power is the ability to get things done.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

M Scott Peck

I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for? dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.

Andrea Gibson

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force

Blaise Pascal

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Epictetus

Consult duty not events.

Walter Savage Landor