"I'm hopeful because people are ready to step up and educate people, support peaceful protest, and make their voices heard. People are motivated to make a positive difference."

“By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.”

“I don’t show my body for a good cause... if one day in a concert I pull down my pants, I would leave without job to those reporters who say I’m a woman”

“No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where not endowed with th five cardinal virtues of Confucius-benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and fidelity”

Source : Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1987). “Hell screen ; Cogwheels ; A fool's life”, Eridanos Library

“It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!”

“A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.”

“In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.”

“If you do your work, eventually there will be a spark. A fire. A blaze.”

“I need her with me. She goes where I go.”