"Like people, plants respond to extra attention."

“Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other.”

“Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.”

“The opportunity to perform my music for billions of people around the globe will be the greatest highlight of my life, I am honoured to be part of the biggest sports event in the world.”

“Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.”

Source : Zoë Akins (1937). “The Hills Grow Smaller: Poems”

“I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.”

“Be yourself, you’ll be a lot happier.”

“So I am happy with what I did. And I tell you something, when an artist does something, he doesn't have at the beginning, big goals and objectives, you do the thing because you love it.”

Source : Interview with Carolina Varga Dinicu, www.casbahdance.org. June 19, 2003.

“When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”