"If you're crazy enough to do what you love for a living, then you're bound to create a life that matters."

“Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.”

“If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.”

“What do you have in mind - inhumement, entombment, inurnment, interment? Some people lately just prefer in-sarcophogus-ment.”

“I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.”

Source : "Shirin 'Ebadi – Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate". Interview with Amir Taheri, www.memri.org. October 19, 2003.

“We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror.”

Source : Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.179, Island Press

“I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth.”

“The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.”

“I couldn't decide on a title for my first novel and my editor came up with Everything Good Will Come. After that, I thought I should name my own books.A Bit of Difference seems just right.”