"Anyone can be happy when times are good; the richer experience is to be happy when times are not"

-- Susan Harris

“To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.”
“Russell Wilson knows who he is. Heâ€™s not a running quarterback, heâ€™s not a throwing quarterback â€“ heâ€™s an athlete back there playing the quarterback position. He knows that, he understands it and his team allows him to be who he is.”
“I never had a problem resisting somebody that I knew was going to break my heart.”

Source : Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 28, 2009.
“Well, the film industry is completely sexist and completely class-biased. It's not something I get on the ground level, it's more from financiers and producers and distributors. It's a way of dealing with you that is essentially patronising: I know better than you.”

Source : "Lynne Ramsay: 'Just talk to me straight'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2011.
“It would have to stand on the basis of what somebody had done to it and that would be the basis on which it would be judged. So it's a funny art form. You gain a great deal when you have good collaborators and sometimes people just don't understand what you've done.”
“Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity as that it provides spiritual values. It puts man in touch with the highest aspirations and lofiest goals. It offers intellectual delight and the exultation of resolving the mysteries of the universe.”

Source : Morris Kline (2013). “Mathematics for the Nonmathematician”, p.551, Courier Corporation
“Remember all of the 'me too' social networks built just to have a social feature Facebook and MySpace didn't have? I built one for political discussion called Essembly. It enabled unique and potentially transformative social interactions, but only 20,000 people ever used it.”
“I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.”

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