"I don't regard fundamentalism in the United States or in Europe as a terrible threat, partly because it is a self-curing disease. The younger generation drifts away, so fundamentalists always have to recruit to keep up with themselves."

“I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now theyve got some good Mediterranean blood in them.”

Source : "Ali Wentworth Talks ‘Ali In Wonderland,’ Life With George Stephanopoulos" by Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 07, 2012.

“With all reserve we advance the view that a supernova represents the transition of an ordinary star into a neutron star consisting mainly of neutrons. Such a star may possess a very small radius and an extremely high density. As neutrons can be packed much more closely than ordinary nuclei and electrons, the gravitational packing energy in a cold neutron star may become very large, and under certain conditions may far exceed the ordinary nuclear packing fractions...”

“I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate”

“O Priest! Take care lest what was said to Christ on the cross be said to you: He saved others, himself he cannot save!”

“The best place to solve a problem is on paper.”

“The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes for irony, name-calling passes for insight, bleeped-out four-letter words pass for wit, and lowest-common-denominator jokes pass for analysis. Satire should have a point of view. It doesn't have to get a belly laugh. It does have to present criticism.”

Source : "In The Jester's Court". Interview with David Kupfer, thesunmagazine.org. February 2009.

“All I need to understand is the unwritten law of warriors," he said firmly. "And women and children are never sent to do our work without our protection." He pointed to the trees, emphatically. "That's the language I share with them.”