"Once in awhile, you do encounter bad acquaintance, mean people, toxic aura. Don't let them rent space in your heart and mind. Don't let anyone make you so upset that you become someone you don't even recognise."

“I've cheated, or someone on my team has cheated, in almost every single game I've been in.”

“I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.”

Source : John Berryman (2014). “The Dream Songs: Poems”, p.24, Macmillan

“Strength lies not in defence but in attack”

“If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have, and I don't see anything wrong with that.”

“If your income on films or whatever you're producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don't have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don't make money, you don't make anything.”

“Until you find something worth dying for, you're not really living.”

Source : Song: Carry Me High, Album: God, 1996

“The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.”

“What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.”