"I believe I was raised with feminist values, but I don't think I ever heard my Mom call herself a feminist. Before I identified as a feminist myself, I thought of feminism as more of a historical term describing the women's movement in the '70s but didn't know much about what they had done and didn't think it applied to my life at all."

“I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.”

Source : "People think the book is a love-letter to Africa, but really it is a love-letter to my mother". Interview with Louisa Young, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2002.

“What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.”

Source : "Philosophie Zoologique". Book by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1809), Vol. I, p. 226; translation by Hugh Elliot, "Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals", p. 109, 1914.

“Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.”

“Derek looked at Kylie and half chuckled. "The last time I saw that look from girls, there was a handwritten note on my neighbor's tree house that read 'No boys allowed.' I'll see you. And if I get anything from my computer research, I'll let you know.”

“Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.”

“I remember the first time we stood in this spot. We were on the deck of a boat in the middle of what was then Penny's Bay, envisioning what could be, what would be, what will be. Six years later, through our dream partnership with Hong Kong government, the creative dream is now a reality. Hong Kong Disneyland stands before us as a living symbol of the creativity and imagination that are the heart and soul of Disney.”

“Too many times I've heard records from bands who were obviously, like, 'Well, we're at least gonna do half as well as we did on our last record. At least we can count on that.' You really have to keep that initial hunger that made some of your first best songs your first best songs. You have to keep that fire in the belly.”

“We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.”