"Flying for the airlines is not supposed to be an adventure. From takeoff to landing, the autopilots handle the controls. This is routine. In a Boeing as much as an Airbus. And they make better work of it than any pilot can. You're not supposed to be the blue-eyed hero here. Your job is to make decisions, to stay awake, and to know which buttons to push and when. Your job is to manage the systems."

“I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother.”

“I’ve spent some time working with a non-Italian designer, I’ve been helping him organize fashion shows, the advertising, also helping with the creative part. But the great part about this work is that I am no one!”

Source : "Allegra Versace Talks Anorexia, Making A Name For Herself In Fashion" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2011.

“There's nothing worse than the sequel that's a letdown from the first movie.”

“Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.”

Source : Pratibha Patils farewell speech to the nation, www.abplive.in. July 24, 2012.

“There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.”

“Personal power is the ability to take action.”

“What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.”

“A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.”