"Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged."

“I am a much happier 27-year-old than I was at 20 years old. I am so fortunate because I have an amazing family, amazing friends and a great support system. I think at 27 it is much easier for me to look at life and appreciate what I have rather than stressing about the little things day to day.”

Source : "Meryl Davis Talks Role Models, Charlie White And Her Perfect Day Off". Interview with Nina Bahadur, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2014.

“Language changes very fast.”

“I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.”

“The terrain is thinner, the vegetation is greener, that's a good sign we're getting close to the coast.”

“In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade. The pathos is his ability to touch feelings to move people emotionally. The logos is his ability to give solid reasons for an action, to move people intellectually.”

“People think if you're a movie star, you're the boss. But first of all, I'm not a movie star, I'm in a very different place. I'm not looking to do what I want - I am looking for what we can find. It's a creative process.”

“I'm bangin' from Belize to Tel Aviv on the Red Sea Racin' Saddam Hussein on Kawasaki jet ski's”

Source : Song: Rasassanation, Album: Rasassination, 1998

“Crying, that is, sobbing is the earliest and deepest way to release tension. Infants can cry almost from the moment of birth, and do so easily following every stress that produces a state of tension in the body... Human beings are the only creatures who can react in this way to stress and tension. Most probably, they are the only ones who need this form of release.”