"If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert."

“As far as cheating goes, they'll never stop it. The only way it can be done successfully, only one person can know about it.”

“The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away.”

“This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.”

Source : "The Q&A: Natalie Jeremijenko, thingker". More Intelligent Life Interview, www.economist.com. September 20, 2010.

“The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.”

“Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.”

Source : Mark H. McCormack (1990). “What They Still Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School”, Bantam

“God is not pleased by blood – and not acting reasonably is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats... To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death.”

“Lenny Kravitz was the biggest gentleman on set. He always helped the ladies, like by pulling out the chair for them. If we were both walking, he would always stop and let me go before him-little things like that.”

“If you actually read the Bible, you can see there's a whole lot more information in there than the way we interpret the Bible. Because there are single lines in the Bible where if you just take them at face-value, they don't make any sense whatsoever in the world we see, we know, and we understand.”