"Technology tends to fuel the imagination. People with a technological bent can get excited by sometimes the most hazardous technologies, if they think they can harness them safely."

“When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it.”

“Write what you care about, what interests and intrigues you.”

Source : Hallie Ephron (2005). “Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel”, p.17, Writer's Digest Books

“Though Snow White might triumph in the tale, she will undoubtedly acquire a mirror after she marries, matures, and has children, and as the mirror reflects her aging and loss of beauty, she will be confronted by a young girl whose innocence and youth will spark her envy and hatred and perhaps drive her to eliminate her “competition.” It appears as though there is a vicious cycle that entraps women up through today. Everything is played out under the male gaze.”

Source : Jack Zipes (2011). “The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films”, p.116, Routledge

“If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.”

“And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.”

Source : Dr David Kay's Testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, www.globalresearch.ca. January 30, 2004.

“I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.”

“Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.”

Source : Sir John Denham (1779). “The poetical works of Sir John Denham: With the life of the author”

“It's not difficult for me to hide emotion, since I've always hidden it in my personal life.”