"Even in the best times, managing science has been compared to herding cats; it is not done well, but one is surprised to find it done at all."

“My vision is to make the most diverse state on earth, and we have people from every planet on the earth in this state. We have the sons and daughters of every, of people from every planet, of every country on earth.”

“Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.”

“There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it.”

“This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.”

“For the longest time I have had so much belief and confidence in myself, which as an actor you need, because the entertainment industry is incredible competitive, brutal, and unpredictable just when you start to think you know what's going on.”

Source : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

“Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”

Source : Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.53, Oneworld Publications

“I thank my mother, Terezinha, for the power of her transforming love.”

“Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.”

Source : William Blackstone, St. George Tucker (1996). “Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia: With an Appendix to Each Volume, Containing Short Tracts Upon Such Subjects as Appeared Necessary to Form a Connecte”, p.300, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.