Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.

Archie Panjabi

In youth we learn in age we understand.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

Herbert Read

Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.

Mahatma Gandhi

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Carl Gustav Jung

But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.

Abu Bakar Bashir

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

Barack Obama

Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.

Source Unknown

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

Alain Prost

See that no one puts a stumbling block, or an occasion to fall in his brothers way.

Bible

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

May Sarton

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots KNEW!

Friedrich Nietzsche