"Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do."

“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.”

“Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.”

“Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?”

“I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.”

“Rejection is nature's way of telling you to write a better book.”

Source : "How To Get Published". nielsenhayden.com. December 6, 2010.

“When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are charged with some actions in Iran.”

Source : "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

“With TV, you just have to finish the days and get the episodes out. And it's always going to be an impossible schedule. That's the funny thing with TV that not a lot of people realize.”

“I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.”

Source : Quoted in the Observer, 30 Dec1973.