"We have focused on the miracle-thing and I think we often overlook the message of Hanukkah. To me, the core of the holiday is the cleaning of the temple.... The accomplishment was in restoring the temple to the purpose for which it was built. Now think of the temple as a symbol. Perhaps it represents my life. The world has tried to use me for its own (perhaps good, but none-the-less extrinsic) purposes. But now I can rededicate myself to my own original purpose."

“Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.”

Source : "Being Naked - Playing Dead: The Art of Peter Greenaway". Book by Alan Woods, 1996.

“I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.”

“Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.”

Source : Source: www.nobelprize.org

“If I've operated on 8,000 brain tumours, if 7,999 patients were satisfied, if I'd done the right thing, if I have funded research like I have, if I've raised millions of dollars like I have, and yet there was one patient out there who was unhappy, I think it's a price that you pay. The good would overcome that one bit of bad.”

Source : "Dr Charlie Teo, neurosurgeon". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. February 20, 2011.

“An unguarded strength is a double weakness.”

“As far as the leading man/romantic lead, I'll tell you what, I really enjoyed my experience more than I thought or imagined I would on 'Catch and Release.' God bless them if they want to give me another shot at that. I would love to have that as something I can go to on occasion.”

“All I see is people out there who are hungry for more.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“The stillness of October gold Went out like beauty from a face.”