"Putin is very much afraid of leaving. Because he is formally right now in his first term, so has another eight years from now. Legally, he has created all the mechanisms for himself. He's a lawyer."

“My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.”

Source : "Author Q&A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

“To create is, first and foremost, to create time.”

“Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.”

Source : Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.288

“When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it.”

“I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.”

“I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.”

“It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.”

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”

Source : "Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing‎" by Larry Chang, (p. 55), 2006.