"You can plan ahead, you just can’t worry ahead"

“Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.”

“A game may be as integral to a culture, as true an object of human aesthetic appreciation, as admirable a product of creativity as a folk art or a style of music; and, as such, it is quite as worthy of study.”

“Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.”

“At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.”

Source : "A need for U.S. to lead" by Ellen Tauscher, www.sfgate.com. September 24, 2006.

“I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing.”

“My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.”

Source : Roy Newquist, Joan Crawford (1980). “Conversations with Joan Crawford”

“Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads.”

Source : Robert M. Sapolsky (2004). “Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated”, p.4, Macmillan

“I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it.”