"Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden."

“I believe this generation, particularly the younger people don't really like labels.”

“Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.”

“If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you’ve left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.”

“I was really scared that other girls hated me, that I wasn't pretty enough or cool enough or I didn't have enough Instagram followers or whatever. Finding female friendship was such a monumental point in my life. And I never want somebody to feel like they have to re-evaluate themselves to join my friends or to join any friend-group.”

“I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.”

“Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just virtual reality.”

Source : "Britain needs schools for science" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

“I don't think it's time yet to eliminate cash, but I propose having a less-cash society, not a cashless one.”

Source : "'The Curse Of Cash' Makes Case For A World Without Paper Money". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 1, 2016.

“Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories.”