"God doesn't ask you to figure it all out. He only asks you to believe."

“With the broad and powerful swing of the hand which Zola in The Earth gave to his ploughman, L'Auto, journal of ideas and action, is going to fling across France today those reckless and uncouth sowers of energy who are the great professional riders of the world... From Paris to the blue waves of the Mediterranean, from Marseille to Bordeaux, passing along the roseate and dreaming roads sleeping under the sun, across the calm of the fields of the Vendée, following the Loire, which flows on still and silent, our men are going to race madly, unflaggingly.”

“God is love and if you are ready, he always is.”

Source : Song: God Is Love, Album: Circus

“All models are wrong, but some are useful.”

Source : George E. P. Box, Norman R. Draper (2007). “Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses”, p.414, John Wiley & Sons

“You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.”

“I MUST go to what desperately frightens me -- the chance of failure.”

Source : "Actress and Activist". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. July 4, 2008.

“All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all the skill which one can acquire. And then to stand before the judgement of time.”

“This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.”

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

“I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.”