"I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!"

“Since these early days, I have seen and have experienced many types of discrimination and all of them were rooted in the fear of people that were different than the majority.”

“Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.”

“Thou art merciful; when all my endeavour is turned toward Thee because all Thy endeavour is turned toward me; when I look unto Thee alone with all my attention, nor ever turn aside the eyes of my mind, because Thou dost enfold me with Thy constant regard; when I direct my love toward Thee alone because Thou, who art Love's self, hast turned Thee toward me alone. And what, Lord, is my life, save that embrace wherein Thy delightsome sweetness doth so lovingly enfold me?”

Source : "The Vision of God".

“I am a citizen of the Soviet Union and I think sharp measures need to be taken against anti-Soviet forces that are trying to make their way into the leadership. In addition, it is vitally important to maintain the lines of communication with Germany through Poland.”

Source : "Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev". Book by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, 2007.

“If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.”

“The trouble is that you won't get the scientists to agree on a course of action. It is almost instinctive in science to accept contrary views, because disagreeing gives you guidance to experimental tests of ideas - your own and those offered by others….”

Source : Interview for the George C. Marshall Institute, September 3, 1997.

“Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.”

Source : Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

“Him & Her are born directly from the ideas behind the Panton Chair. An evolution of the hermaphroditic original, declined into the harmony of the two sexes. They assume sculpted forms like naked models of seduction...but they feel no shame.”