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“I take being a role model seriously.”
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“You can't tell how much spirit a team has until it starts losing.”
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“Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own ...”
Source : Vicki Baum (1964). “I know what I'm worth”, London
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“I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.”
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“About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and "twas the 47 El. libri I" [Pythagoras' Theorem]. He read the proposition "By God", sayd he, "this is impossible:" So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition; which proposition he read. That referred him back to another, which he also read. Et sic deinceps, that at last he was demonstratively convinced of that truth. This made him in love with geometry.”
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“Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.”
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“Remember, as each man and woman is a microcosm reflecting the larger natural world, so healing of the self is also a healing for the world. As above, so below.”
Source : Brian Froud, Jessica Macbeth (2000). “Faeries' Oracle”, p.187, Simon and Schuster
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“The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.”
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“There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be.”
Source : “On whistleblowers and government threats of investigation” by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2013. 
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“Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.”
