"The opposite of joy is not sorrow. It is unbelief."

“A judgmental attitude helps neither ourselves nor others. Arguing or preaching rarely changes other people. Even if our opinions are justified, criticizing others usually makes them wary and defensive. And it takes our attention away from our own lives, which we can change.”

Source : Diane Dreher (2000). “The Tao of Inner Peace: A Guide to Inner Peace”, Plume

“Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.”

“I have empathy towards bullying. Not about punishing the bully but empowering the victim. We have a tendency to use the word "bully" and other words in the wrong situations, thus desensitizing and lessening the impact of the true situation.”

“Science is a search for basic truths about the Universe, a search which develops statements that appear to describe how the Universe works, but which are subject to correction, revision, adjustment, or even outright rejection, upon the presentation of better or conflicting evidence.”

“I'm 5 foot 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield”

“You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.”

“Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.”

“True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.”

Source : Cleveland Abbe (1893). “The Meteorological Work of the U. S. Signal Service, 1870 to 1891”