"In God's pattern of justice, He takes the risk of the guilty going free but not the innocent being punished."

“We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.”

“Drinking and driving is safer than either drinking or driving - and no one has ever died drinking, driving and juggling.”

“Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways”

Source : Foreword to "Coming of Age in Samoa" by Margaret Mead, 1928.

“The awards world can be ridiculous, but I'm not one to bash it. I love awards! When I've been nominated for Emmys and when I won my DGA Award, I couldn't have been happier. I always liked getting a gold star in class.”

“Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.”

“If theres something really, really bothering me about a script, then Ill say something, but otherwise I find my answers in the script.”

“When I was in graduate school at MIT I was trying to think about how to develop software and systems for farmers and villagers in India. In the process of doing that, I realized that my reference point was internal to the laboratory, rather than in the communities that I was wanting to serve. I realized that I could no longer assume what a good technology looks like from inside the laboratory; instead, I had to be in the world with people. Not just designing for them but with them.”

“There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.”

Source : "Local hero". Interview with Demetrios Matheou, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2001.