I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Samuel Johnson

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

Paulo Coelho

Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.

Michael Phelps

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

Alan Kay

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

Cynthia McKinney

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Henry David Thoreau

It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up. And they did.

Diane Arbus

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

H. P. Lovecraft

All life is a rhythm, she said as I sat up. All death is rhythm suspended, a syncopation before life resumes.

Samuel R. Delany

A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

Albert Einstein

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine De SaintExupery