"Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand."

“My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.”

“My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.”

Source : "Robert B. Laughlin - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. 1998.

“Women and people of color and young people especially are about to have this amazing opportunity to shift the political conversation in this country for the good of all of us, toward more progressive policies, and it's a really amazing and important time to be part of that.”

Source : "Glamour Women Of The Year Awards Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Lena Dunham, Zaha Hadid And Others" By Margaret Wheeler Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2012.

“Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search in Asia and Western civilization. It is the Science of Human Affairs which treats the livingness and beingness of Man and demonstrates to him a pathway to greater freedom.”

“I'm not sure how we exist, as an artist, without country radio.”

“Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends.”

Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.66, Random House

“A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.”

“I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.”