"Forecasts are difficult to make-particularly those about the future."

“I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!”

“When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, 'Then there's no hope for me, Mum.”

Source : "Andrew Sullivan, American by Choice". Interview with Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. November 16, 2011.

“Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not anything "magical" but the right attitude, the focus on nature's reality, the focus on asking the right questions, the willingness to try (and to discard) unconventional answers, the sensitive ear for phoniness, self-deception, bombast, and conventional but unproven assumptions.”

“So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.”

Source : Wally Lamb (2009). “The Hour I First Believed: A Novel”, p.50, Harper Collins

“Stay open and curious, and realize that the best is yet to come.”

“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”

“There are things that I would like to do, but I make a big distinction between liking to do something and wanting to do something. If there's something that I want to do I've done it. If there's something that comes up that I want to do I will do it.”

“I Don't Try to Guess What a Million People Will Like. It's Hard Enough to Know What I Like.”

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