"Stop thinking that other people are going to come and save you. You gotta save yourself."

“Some people don't even recognize real love when it comes without being called or sought.”

“As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.”

Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.

“All we can do is go around telling the truth.”

Source : Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I don't know if anyone ever 'wins' a war.”

“I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.”

“Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.”

“I crave cantaloupe like a crazy person ... But I put salt all over it, so I don't know if it's that healthy.”

“"Technology" is a cross-curriculum perspective running through the new Australia Curriculum, and there are a number of technology subject areas as well that include coding, which has not previously been part of the Australian Curriculum.”

Source : "The Global Search for Education: Got Tech? - Australia". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2013.