"I would not want to forget the first time I read The Lord of the Rings. I would never want to forget that! That was so magical to me, and that was a real eye-opening experience. I was probably 11 when I read that and already a reader, but I think that book really showed me how you can be transported and how your imagination can take you to a whole other place."

“If a heart becomes attached to anything other than Allah, Allah makes him dependent on what he is attached to. And he will be betrayed by it.”

“A batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England”

“David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today”

“Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.”

Source : "Small Business chief sees small firms as vital to recovery". Interview with Laura Petrecca, www.usatoday.com. August 29, 2010.

“Rest in reason. Move in Passion.”

“Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination.”

“You have no idea what a long-legged gal can do without doing anything.”

Source : "Fictional character: Geraldine 'Gerry' Jeffers". "The Palm Beach Story", 1942.

“A work of art enters life very much like another human being - complicated, loaded with overtones and meaning, mysterious, enticing, obsessive, and beautiful. There's no way to control how it will be used, how it will be read, and that's part of the excitement of it.”