"Empowerment of individuals and communities is absolutely central. Getting the community involved in organising their own destiny has got to be a key part of it."

“Hitting a golf ball and putting have nothing in common. They're two different games. You work all your life to perfect a repeating swing that will get you to the greens, and then you have to try to do something that is totally unrelated. There shouldn't be any cups, just flag sticks. And then the man who hit the most fairways and greens and got closest to the pins would be the tournament winner.”

“Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him”

“You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.”

“Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.”

Source : "Exclusive: Actress Aunjanue Ellis and Director Russell Costanzo Discuss 'The Tested'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. April 29, 2011.

“One of the ways we communicate that we can be trusted is in the way we care for other people.”

“All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.”

“It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.”

“I've got to be a little more careful. A little more careful about what I say. Don't have too many drinks.”