"No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes."

“Grandparents can have a profound influence on their grandchildren. Their time is generally not as encumbered and busy as the parents', so books can be opened and read, stories can be told... Children then obtain a perspective of life which not only is rewarding but can bring them security, peace, and strength....”

“I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.”

“Since you control a federal budget that has just been increased from $17.8 billion last year to $19.2 billion this year, is asking people like you if we should continue with our nation's current drug policy like a person asking a barber if one needs a haircut?”

Source : "Is Our Drug Policy Failing? Don't Ask". articles.latimes.com. March 29, 2000.

“I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality”

“I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.”

Source : Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.69, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.”

“Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I would rather be hired solely for my talent, not just to fill a quota.”

Source : "DP Reed Morano on Making it as a Cinematographer Regardless of the ‘Female Thing’" by Reed Morano, www.indiewire.com. February 24, 2015.