"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement."

“Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.”

Source : "Insight and Responsibility".

“Who can undo What time hath done? Who can win back the wind? Reckon lost music from a broken lute? Renew the redness of a last year's rose? Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?”

“There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.”

“Creativity thrives on a consistent diet of challenges and opportunities, which are often one and the same.”

“I'm taking opportunities as they come; I really am. Not to get too sort of mystical, but I believe in fate. I believe when roles are presented to me in my life they're for a very specific reason, something for me to learn. And it's coming at the right time.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

“How plotless real life was!”

Source : Anne Tyler (1992). “Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant”

“There's a certain kind of existential freedom that comes to people who realize that all the things that they hold onto and that they think define them, once they're gone, there's this new freedom to determine the way you're going to live your life.”

Source : "Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James Interview TERRIERS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2010.

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”