With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.

I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.N.B.: This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita.

J. Robert Oppenheimer, On the in

Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy. In a similar sense suffering is not always a pathological phenomenon; rather than being a symptom of neurosis, suffering may well be a human achievement, especially if the suffering grows out of existential frustration... Existential frustration is neither pathological or pathogenic.

Viktor E. Frankl

And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

Lewis Carroll

First appearance deceives many.

Phaedrus

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Mark Twain

The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.

Simon Wiesenthal

It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.

Germaine Greer

The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.

Albert Einstein

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

Richard Hofstadter

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Kahlil Gibran, "My Soul Is Heavy

My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.

Vanessa Hudgens

Never f*!k with the ineffable.

Terry Pratchett