"There is no crisis in this country that requires us to set up a crisis headquarters. Iran is currently in a good situation."

“The only truths we can point to are the ever-changing truths of our own experience.”

Source : Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.62, A&C Black

“According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.”

“Waking your kids up for school the first day after a break is almost as much fun as birthing them was.”

“The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of 'practice' events at, that the average human a thousand years ago had absolutely no exposure to. Our brains are massively remodeled by this exposure-but so, too, by reading, by television, by video games, by modern electronics, by contemporary music, by contemporary 'tools,' etc.”

Source : "Are we getting smarter or dumber?". Interview with Stefanie Olsen, www.cnet.com. September 21, 2005.

“The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.”

“In the Apostolic Exhortation 'Amoris Laetitia,' Pope Francis speaks only in one point about homosexual tendencies. As did the last synod, the Holy Father speaks about the question of how to handle the situation when, in the family, a member of the family discovers him or herself having a homosexual tendency.”

Source : "Cardinal Schonborn on 'Amoris Laetitia': Pope Francis Knows What He Is Talking About". Interview with Deborah Castellano Lubov, zenit.org. April 12, 2016.

“It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.”

Source : "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

“Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.”