"Xiaomi looks a bit like Apple but is really more like Amazon with some elements of Google."

“It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.”

“The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus disturbing the business of the country.”

“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”

“I have rarely read a more wonderful book than To Win Her Favor by Tamera Alexander. Rich with historical detail and fully developed characters, this novel held me spellbound until the last page. If you read one historical novel this year, make it To Win Her Favor. It will linger with you long after the last page.”

“Meditation is listening to the divine within”

“People look at me as if I were some sort of monster, but I can't think why. In my macabre pictures, I have either been a monster-maker or a monster-destroyer, but never a monster. Actually, I'm a gentle fellow. Never harmed a fly. I love animals, and when I'm in the country I'm a keen bird-watcher.”

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

“I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.”

Source : "The Confessions of Mike De Luca" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2011.

“The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.”

Source : Underwood Dudley, Gerald L. Alexanderson, Nathan Altshiller-Court, John Aubry, Girolamo Cardano (2008). “Is mathematics inevitable?: a miscellany”, The Mathematical Association of America