"It's not enough to win the tricks that belong to you. Try also for some that belong to the opponents."

“Horrible events in life serve as catalysts for major changes in our life perspective and as teaching tools for helping others.”

“I think our drug laws need to be made scientifically, as best as possible, recognizing that values will always be part of that.”

“This is not what I thought physics was about when I started out: I learned that the idea is to explain nature in terms of clearly understood mathematical laws; but perhaps comparisons are the best we can hope for.”

Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.203, Harvard University Press

“The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of the canals, as in a Swiftian Lilliput, the real world, with its contrivances, appears as a vast folly.”

“There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.”

“I always wanted children, but not until they were actually part of my life did I realize that I could love that fiercely, or get that angry.”

“Biotech crops are not a solution to solve hunger in Africa or elsewhere.”

“My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.”