"People can smile even when terrified."

-- Nisio Isin

“One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Content informs design; design without content is decoration.”
“I will not live by rules that make no sense to me”
“Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave.”

Source : Fatema Mernissi (2001). “Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems”, p.219, Simon and Schuster
“The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.”

Source : "You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles and Practices" by Swen Nater, Ronald Gallimore, Fitness Information Technology, Incorporated, (p. 151), 2010.
“It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time.”
“Today Washington is our Hollywood, the Senate our Warner Bros., the White House our Beverly Hills. People who never read a line of a movie magazine deal with the lives of leaders as if they were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.”
“You are so near to my thoughts and my heart yet so far from my body and my arms... I once loved the whole world because you were in it.”

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