"Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind."

“My routine is really based around my kids, and I try not to hold myself to a schedule, because it is always changing. What has been the most influential thing to help me keep my center is to set priorities and stick to them.”

Source : "Trista Sutter from The Bachelorette: Spreading the Gift of Gratitude". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.”

“It's over. The franchise is dead. The press killed it. Your magazine f**king killed it. New York Magazine. It's like all the critics got together and said, 'This franchise must die.' Because they all had the exact same review. It's like they didn't see the movie. Got any more gum?”

“I'm seeing too many geeky, nerdy kids get addicted to video games and they're going nowhere. It's making me crazy.”

“Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country's not so clean. They're either shot in the studios or shot in London, in America, in Switzerland - clean places. Everywhere except India.”

Source : "Anurag Kashyap: Bollywood is to blame for India's inability to deal with reality" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2013.

“When it draws near to witching time of night.”

Source : Robert Blair (1851). “The Grave: A Poem”, p.17

“I think its really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death.”

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

“As I have already said, the belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous or all delusions. It becomes still more dangerous if it is coupled with the missionary zeal to enlighten the rest of the world, whether the rest of the world wishes to be enlightened or not. To refuse to embrace wholeheartedly a particular definition of reality, to dare to see the world differently can become a "think crime" in a truly Orwellian sense as we get steadily closer to 1984.”

Source : Paul Watzlawick (1977). “How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication”, Vintage