"I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so its really confusing."

“If you see a shy person, ask them some questions like, 'Why are you so shy? Tell everyone, we're all listening.”

“The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.”

“What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto?”

Source : Arika Okrent (2009). “In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language”, p.114, Spiegel & Grau

“Heaven was not so far away in the eyes of these people (the Maya), who believed that individual, civic and social truths could be revealed by consulting with nature: the shifting of the wind, the arrival of the rain, the appearance of the stars”

“Another part of the rejection I mention was the realisation that Buddhism quite simply ignores or dismisses a whole hemisphere of human experience that finds expression in and is enshrined by the mystery religions.”

“If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.”

“For Rostropovich, every single note that he played had a special kind of human meaning behind it. And this was something that he expressed and demanded of everyone who worked with him, who wanted to rise up to that level.”

Source : "David Finckel and Wu Han". Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

“... danger was always at its most lethal when disguised as respectability.”

Source : Susan Moody (1992). “Mosaic”, Dell Publishing Company